Unlike Trump, Reagan was an ardent campaigner for conservative candidates and causes before ever running for office.
He may have been at his best, and most ardent, when the candidates were asked about an article published Tuesday on The Times's Web site about Mr. Bloomberg's making, through his accountant, a $26,000 campaign contribution to Mayor Cory A. Booker of Newark about a month after Mr. Booker endorsed Mr. Bloomberg.
Take the candidate's ardent surrogate, the actor Rob Lowe (please!).
Representative Norm Dicks, a Washington Democrat who was one of Mr. Gore's most ardent supporters, said his candidate might have handled the crisis as well as Mr. Bush -- but not necessarily any better.
Irrespective of his attempts to morph from moderate former Governor of Massachusetts into ardent right-wing GOP candidate of 2012, a number of Mr. Romney's positions are pretty anti-consumer.
Some have attended small fund-raisers for both men, curious to hear what the candidates' more ardent supporters have to say.
Women say two main factors swayed the results against them: the ardent endorsements of particular candidates by religious sheiks, and the fact that the heaviest turnout came in poorer neighborhoods, where women probably followed their husbands' directions.
That African Americans only become ardent Democrats when a black candidate is fielded is frankly a myth.
The Rev. Al Sharpton's long shot bid for the Democratic nomination stumbled on Tuesday after two top aides resigned, and some ardent supporters complained that the candidate had failed to build a cohesive campaign.
James Morrow's 10th novel concerns Mason Ambrose, ardent philosopher and failed doctoral candidate, who accepts $100,000 to help a wealthy teenager, Londa, recover her "moral centre" after a diving accident.
