12. Wick Allison

Wick Allison is an American magazine publisher and author. He currently is the owner of D Magazine, the city magazine of Dallas-Fort Worth, which he co-founded in 1974. In 1985, Allison was asked by William F. Buckley, Jr. to join the board of directors of the National Review, and in 1990 he became its publisher, succeeding William A. Rusher.

"Today it is conservatives, not liberals, who talk with alarming bellicosity about making the world 'safe for democracy.' It is John McCain who says America’s job is to 'defeat evil,' a theological expansion of the nation’s mission that would make George Washington cough out his wooden teeth.

This kind of conservatism, which is not conservative at all, has produced financial mismanagement, the waste of human lives, the loss of moral authority, and the wreckage of our economy that McCain now threatens to make worse."