Federal judges are also under regular ideological assault from the right wing.
Set up after the 1979 revolution as an ideological counterweight to the less politically minded regular army, they have accrued enormous power under Mr Ahmadinejad.
His followers underwent a rigorous ideological training program, with daily lectures and regular consultations, by video with a militant preacher in Lebanon.
Because it would assure regular turnover, the court would experience fewer long-term ideological swings, enabling it to better do its original job of anchoring the legislative process to the Constitution.
Going on their air on a regular basis and lending your name and reputation to their ideological razzle-dazzle is like agreeing to be the regular kulak guest columnist at Pravda in 1929.
In an age when a hundred of the richest donors give more than five million regular contributors, we often think of those huge givers as motivated by ideological commitments or the strategic pursuit of influence.
This year, if Congress tries to pass 12 spending bills through regular order, there could be 12 chances for unscrupulous lawmakers to hitch ideological riders onto spending bills.
Differences with the opposition were intensified by ideological attitudes toward the French Revolution, and by 1795 administration supporters had hardened into a regular party, which succeeded in electing John Adams to the presidency in 1796.
He would rather fight an ideological battle than make certain that children who have preventable illnesses like asthma are getting regular checkups.
Phase #2: a "third party revolt" demonstrates the incapacity of regular parties to integrate these issues within their platforms (which would otherwise appease their constituencies and dampen tensions); ideological polarization occurs among and within parties.
