without much name recognition among the great mass of serious readers …

Well I guess that’s the point isn’t it? Conservatives are not considered ‘serious readers’ by the effete, elitist liberals.

Get a clue Winifred, (as Ann Coulter has documented) conservative authors frequently hit the best seller lists, while your most respected and polically powerful authors hit the big salesbin in the sky. Perhaps their mothers read their books, few others. Its conservatives who read, its liberals who gain their political knowledge from Jon Stewart, KOZ, comic books, and Katy Couric.

Good thing that you liberals have the mainstream media and bookstore staff (college graduates who are bitter about big college debts and no real job for their degree in Art History) running interference for them.

BTW, what serious reading have you done today?