The remaining Never Trump diehards view Feehery and the many Republicans in Congress like him as having made a morally repugnant deal with the President.
Though skating is free in Bryant Park and comes with cool views in Central Park, and diehard snow fiends find ways to cross-country ski, play hockey and snowshoe, few visitors to New York arrive with such sporty ends in mind.
In the view of these Blairite diehards, the Liberal Democrat leader is following in the footsteps of their hero far more than Mr Miliband, who has sought every opportunity to distance himself from Mr Blair.
Sears owns several well-known brand names — Kenmore, Craftsman, DieHard, the Sears name itself — and is viewed by Wall Street as a basket case.
Though not exactly a diehard Yankee fan, he savors a 19th-floor view that includes the stadium, stretching as it does from Midtown to Westchester County.
Wood says that being a conspiracy theorist is just another world view, no different from being a diehard liberal or a full-on, fox-killing Tory.
With his WWE Network launched in February the man who pioneered pay-per-view TV hopes to draw 2 million diehard fans to pay $9.99 a month for Internet-delivered content.
For the July 15 conjunction, the online skywatching service Slooh Space Camera offered remote telescope views of the moon and planets for diehard sky observers who missed the planetary display due to bad weather.
Had they been blessed with a bass player capable of shutting his trap once in a while, they might well have faded from view, into a half-life of solid reviews, ageing diehard fans and back-catalogue tours, regardless of the quality of their music.
The student also ran into a spot of bother recently when he was forced to move out of a flat after just two months when his diehard feminist flatmates cornered him 'for several hours' over his controversial views and online video posts.
