Mr. Bodman, for one, believes that if Governor Bush is finally declared president-elect, there will be opportunities for ambitious Democrats to work the middle ground of the ideological divide with a Republican president who campaigned on the theme of bipartisanship.
Williams' point, then, is that unless any particular agents are allowed to initiate actions and to have "ground projects", then either the agents under this prohibition will be subjects for manipulation by other agents who are allowed to have ground projects the situation of ideological oppression.
He would rather sacrifice the health of uninsured children than yield an inch of ideological ground.
In his preface to "A Rebel in Defense of Tradition," his 1994 biography of Macdonald, Mr. Wreszin described the sliver of ideological ground occupied by one generation of such radical outliers.
But the GOP's political reaction often concedes a great deal of ideological ground to anti-government populism — what its advocates describe as "constitutionalism". Our national recovery, in this view, depends on returning to the severely constrained governing vision of the Founding Fathers, as embodied in the Constitution.
Although a minister in the 1974-79 Labour government and a senior member of the shadow cabinet throughout the long years in opposition, Mr Meacher, who will be 63 this year, expected little in the way of preferment from Tony Blair, on grounds of both age and ideological dodginess (he has the distinction of apparently being the only Labour minister on whom the CIA keeps a file).
For all practical purposes, the DEA runs the Bolivian government's anti-drug program, providing a rare patch of ideological common ground for poor Indians and the white urban middle classes of La Paz, whether conservative, liberal, or radical, they are united in their loathing of the gringos' interference in local affairs.
His conjoined romantic and financial frustration leads him to espouse an outsider's ideology, a kind of ideological sour grapes — he claims to oppose high-society gatherings on political grounds and defines himself as a socialist, a "Fourierist".
Also of interest is his declaration of ideological war against the Christians, whose doctrines he attacked on both philosophical and exegetical grounds in a work of 15 books entitled Against the Christians.
The Socialists were not rejected on ideological grounds, but on grounds of economic incompetence.
