Why did Conservative's my grandfather's age look up to more intellectual Conservatives such as?

As opposed to whom the left idolizes, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Rachel Maddow, Ed Schultz? If you actually ever watched or heard Glenn Beck’s show, you would know that he frequently says “don’t take my word for it, do your own homework.” But of course you haven’t ever bothered, because you just blindly follow those on the left, the same way you ridicule conservatives for blindly following those on the right. Can you spell, hypocrite?