While it would be admirable for any voter to decide their campaign allegiance, and their vote, on honest ideological differences with a particular candidate, the resistance among some Clinton supporters to Obama's campaign is rooted, instead, in half-truths, no-truths and flat-out ignorance about who Senator Obama is and what his campaign stands for.
The indignation, the self-righteousness, the eloquent young leader, the appeal to the honest, non-ideological voter … What is fascinating about Ciudadanos is that it has been artificially modelled as a mirror image of Podemos.
In an era when elected officials are about as popular as burglars and bank C.E.O.s, the answer is that Christie cleverly created a public persona as a plain-talking, non-ideological Honest Joe — an anti-politician, almost — and the media, or much of it, went along with the spin.
Democracies die when they can no longer distinguish between honest opponents of another ideological kind and toxic enemies who come from far outside all normal values.
10.47am BST Record jobless - early reaction Here's some early reaction to today's eurozone unemployment figures, and inflation data, from City analysts and commentators: Sony Kapoor (@SonyKapoor) Dear #EU leaders, honest mistakes are one think, ideological blindness is still sometimes forgivable but wilful madness?
He said: "Labour are unwilling to commit the £8bn needed and the Tories refuse to say how they will find the money and will not be honest about the huge and ideological cuts that they will make to public services".
By itself, one of these positions -- back-loading entitlement cuts, allowing environmental collapse, prioritizing today's tax cuts -- could be written off as an ideological difference or honest mistake, two as unfortunate political opportunism.
The four Republican senators who switched ideological sides were more intellectually honest.
Unlike Park, we usually do this without any particular ideological motivation — and, if we are honest with ourselves, I think we can admit that one reason we may find Twitter activism distasteful is because it interrupts our online socializing with questions we might not want to answer.
On American cable television and talk radio, honest and robust political discourse has been replaced with an ideological food fight.
In the federal system, any effort to dispel the myths exposed by Professor Stone would require an honest debate by our senators and the political will to retreat from purely ideological attacks on federal judicial candidates, whether for district courts, courts of appeal or the Supreme Court.
