An off-hand and off-colour remark by Barack Obama may have signalled a decision by his campaign to go nuclear on Mitt Romney's shifting ideological track record.
"It would hurt Republicans, and I don't think you can make an argument otherwise," said Representative Steve King (CrunchGov Grade: C). *Methodology notes: partisanship was calculated by finding the difference between ideological voting records of Democrats and Republicans in Vital Statistics, Table 8-10, subtracolumncolumn 4 from 3.
She has long been a critic of federal regulations affecting public lands, and the challenges she has raised to existing environmental laws have been consistent with that ideological and professional record.
Beginning with Daniel Wattenberg's August 1992 The American Spectator article "The Lady Macbeth of Little Rock", Hillary Clinton's own past ideological and ethical record came under attack from conservatives.
Andre Villas-Boas may be perceived as ideological, but he recorded a triumph for pragmatism last night.
But the report found "no support" for accusations of ideological favoritism in records request responses.
From that ideological basis, they recorded "dozens" of songs in Arca's then-apartment in Chinatown, which turned into a full-length that they'll release at some point.
Unlike Iraq, it has no economic resources, no ideological allies, no recent record of cross-border aggression, and no territorial ambitions.
Brandon concludes: "If the swine flu episode was a case of overreaction in the face of infectious disease, HIV/AIDS has been a sorry record of ideological paralysis and federal unwillingness to act effectively".
Time and again, in debate after debate, he's circled back to a few core issues that set him apart from the rest of the field: His focus on reviving U.S. manufacturing; his emphasis on the links between poverty, opportunity and family breakdown; his record of ideological consistency on the issues (health care, climate change, the Wall Street bailout etc).
