How splendid it is for the Miss America Pageant to name Rush Limbaugh as one of its seven judges for its next competition.

The name of the game was clearly numbers since the Miss America Pageant people quickly bandied around the 20 million number as embodying Limbaugh's regular radio audience.

The numbers game has clearly made him welcome.  The Pageant's CEO Art McMaster has said it is "thrilled" to have Limbaugh as a judge.  His 22 years as a radio talk show host clearly impressed McMaster and others on the Miss America Pageant team.

Limbaugh's selection is a boom to critics of beauty pageants who think the idea is tired, archaic, and chauvinistic.  McMaster and the Pageant officials have handed anti-beauty contest feminists a gold-plated rallying point.