Sentences with phrase «of ideological conservatives»

The videos likely will entertain and energize the audiences each man is cultivating — in Hertsgaard's case communitarian activists hoping to build momentum for restrictions on greenhouse gases and in Inhofe's case a mix of ideological conservatives and free - marketeers.

Not exact matches

And, again, this is the core example of the evolution of environmental bullshit: a long history of industry creation of lies; conservative funding of think - tanks, front groups and the echo chamber; the development of an ideological imperative of denialism; and then the necessity of completely groundless bullshit to shore up the lies.

This is a warning shot across the bow of higher education, done for explicit ideological reasons to try to pressure institutions to silence leftists and lift up conservatives.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich still harbors hopes of emerging as a consensus candidate after multiple ballots but he lacks stature with national Republicans annoyed that he is still in the race, and he is deeply distrusted by ideological conservatives.

Will the sign of caucus support for Ms. Smith's leadership put an end to the Wildrose «civil war» between pragmatic and ideological conservatives that Mr. Anglin referred to in a Facebook post yesterday?

The main plenary speakers from America, Cornel West, Barbara Ehrenrich, and Robert Reich reinforce the ideological direction of the conference, and conservatives might ask why the organizers couldn't find a figure on the Right to balance out the opinions and promote real debate.

The ideological boxes labeled liberal, conservative, neoconservative, etc. undergo a salutary rearranging by this company of diverse thinkers united by a devotion to freedom, rights, responsibility, virtue, and a market economy within the framework of moral judgment.

I've received a great many responses to my comment, pro and con, and to my surprise they seem to be breaking down (albeit not perfectly) along ideological lines, with conservatives (of various faiths) joining me in criticizing the ruling and liberals criticizing me for criticizing it.

What we have in evangelical social ethics is a rough analogue of the ideological differences between Ronald Reagan (conservative), Richard Nixon (moderate), Pat Brown (liberal / reformist), and Jerry Brown (radical).

Donald T. Critchlow's impressively researched Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism, a narrative of Schlafly's political career, explains that it was this unyielding quality of hers — her resolute refusal to cultivate the intellectual and cultural elites of either coast, even the conservative intellectual and cultural elites who were her natural ideological allies — that provided the astonishing power that she managed to wield in American politics for more than three decades.

For most people in America, all those not familiar with the complicated ideological positioning on the right end of the political spectrum, the term «conservative» evokes images of the board room, the country club, and the Episcopal church located not far from the latter.

In putting such faith in political creeds, mission statements, and manifestos — in what he called «the ideological style of politics» — Oakeshott thought that modern conservatives had become nearly as «rationalistic» as modern progressives.

This new divide is ideological in the sense that it creates religious «liberals» (who would liberate religion from the past) and «conservatives» (who would conserve the religion of the past) within each religious tradition.

By way of a quick ideological sketch, the Conservatives (or Tories) are on the right of the traditional political spectrum.

The government was under pressure from Outer London Conservatives to free them from the «tax high, spend high» council, and was keen to be rid of the GLC for ideological reasons.

Both in opposition and then in government Oliver's principal aim had been to help a succession of leaders to move the Conservative Party towards a particular ideological position — social and economic liberalism, tempered by a commitment to social justice and environmental stewardship, both globally and nationally.

Voteview allows users to view every congressional roll call vote in American history on a map of the United States and on a liberal - conservative ideological map including information about the ideological positions of voting Senators and Representatives.

«I'm not Conservative and what they're doing on economics, on public services, is an ideological attempt to reshape Britain and I would never have been part of it.

The introductions of these two sub-demographics naturally pushed the overall party's «average» ideological stance closer to the conservative side of things.

When Britain's third party can put aside its differences on issues such as Europe and our nuclear deterrent to join forces with the Conservatives, it must make us question the relevance of dog - tagging parties with ideological values of old.

Prior to the formation of the coalition, the Liberals and the Conservatives were, in terms of the narrow ideological ground on which post-Thatcher politics is fought, quite far apart.

The policy was massively popular, and served a number of ideological purposes for the Conservatives.

He certainly didn't beat his anti-establishment opponents with ideological purity, a history of supporting the GOP and conservative causes, or a stronger ground game.

The coalition government will not solve Britain's fundamental problems because of its ideological divide, Conservative MP Jacob Rees - Mogg has warned.

Support cuts across ideological lines and geographic regions, with 64 percent of liberal, 57 percent of moderate, and 52 percent of conservative voters, as well as 60 percent of New York City dwellers and 55 percent of both Upstate and suburban residents standing behind reform.

The Republican Party is an ideological mix of social and fiscal conservatives once held together by eloquent intellectuals such as Bill Buckley; gone are the days of the Eisenhower Republican; here to stay is the Reagan Republican jumble, with a few vestiges of traditional conservatism tacked on for good measure.

And the distillation of the whole campaign into a personal contest between Alex Salmond and Alistair Darling has framed the choice as one between the SNP's catch - all brand of civic nationalism and a Unionism with New Labour characteristics — at the expense of putting into play the ideological diversity on both sides, from the environmentalist republican nationalism of the Scottish Socialists and Greens, to the federalist vision of the Liberal Democrats, and the cautious sovereigntism of the Conservatives.

In the aftermath of the 2012 American elections, some Tea Party activists have taken up more traditionally populist ideological viewpoints on issues that are distinct from general conservative views.

In short, the Conservative - Lib Dem coalition would be greater than the sum of its parts, an ideological coalition of the willing, not a political marriage of convenience.

And it offers grist to both ideological conservatives and liberals.For conservatives and libertarians, the tragedy reveals the deleterious blowback of nanny state intervention.The social welfare and family court judge tilted to the missing wife's parents, and restricted Josh's visits from his two sons.We should expect Gingrich to run with this story, attacking the liberal nanny state; and how this liberal state's actions have negative unintended consequences.Liberals will also weigh in.The police, 911 distpatcher, and the criminal justice systemas a whole, all failed.The «hard power» of the police state actually made matters worse.As the ideological divide plays out, the tragedy does not end.The young mother / wife is still missing, and presumed dead.The sick Josh is no longer a person of interest.

«I don't accuse them all of that ideological bent, but you only have to read certain newspapers to realise what the position of many fundamental Conservatives is,» he told the Today programme.

Ideological libertarians and conservatives didn't like it because it's a bunch of new government rules supported by new government bureaucracy.

Commercial and ideological reasons mean that The Guardian and Independent will stop a long way short of endorsing the Conservatives but are likely to continue to give David Cameron a fairer hearing than they have given any previous Tory leader.

«When people consider the alternative... the dangers of giving the keys to Number 10 to David Cameron in a Conservative only government where they want to remorselessly cut, cut, cut public services for ideological reasons way beyond what is necessary or put the keys to Number 10 into the hands of Labour, Ed Miliband and Ed Balls, who don't really want to deal with the task of balancing the books, actually they think the sensible thing to do is to stick to the course, finish the job, but finish it fairly.

New York State feels like a liberal state because of the ideological parity, but that is only in comparison to the conservative advantage in the Midwest, Southern and Plains states.

Lord Heseltine, the former Conservative deputy prime minister, and a friend and ideological ally of Ken Clarke's, was interviewed on the World at One.

Massey and Malliotakis come from different wings of the Republican Party, with Massey a moderate billing himself as a «non-political» technocrat open to «ideas from across the political spectrum,» in the Michael Bloomberg mold; while Malliotakis — as evidenced by her support from the Conservative Party — is further to the right, though she has also claimed to not easily fit into any ideological orthodoxy.

Long served as counsel to the Judicial Crisis Network (back when it was the Judicial Confirmation Network) and worked closely with a number of conservative ideological groups to support George W. Bush's court nominees, and later, to oppose, President Obama's picks.

Democrats believe Schaffer's voting record during his time in Congress reflects a too - conservative world view; Republicans argue the counter — that Udall has defined himself well to the ideological left of the average Colorado voter.

Plaid Cymru ruled itself out of having a coalition with the Conservatives on an ideological basis.

It accuses the Conservatives of taking «major strides back to their ideological roots» since the election and points to the «increasingly shrill language the Tories are using as they vacate the centre ground».

Reducing the size of the public sector represents the central ideological goal of the current leadership of the Conservative Party.

Conservative MPs of every ideological hue queued up to praise Theresa May's interim agreement with the European Union on Brexit on Monday.

Long's campaign is hoping that her deep ties to conservative activists can help in the Republican primary against Representative Bob Turner and Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos, and that those ties might encourage ideological donors to support her with super PAC money against the better - funded campaign of Gillibrand.

The Conservative Party is acting long before the Republican primary in this race, so even without the ideological gaps of the Giuliani and Bloomberg years there's a good chance that the parties end up with different candidates.

Cruz argued he was the only true conservative in the race, building on his reputation in the Senate where he clashed both with Democrats and members of his own party over his ideological stubbornness.

Commenting on reports of an announcement by the Prime Minister on the Conservative Party's plans for free schools after the General Election 2015 and on the Secretary of State Nicky Morgan's comments on the Today programme, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «It is clear that if elected the Conservative Party will continue its obsessive ideological focus on structural change.

The unanswered question is: Are we better off with our ideological parties, or were we better served by our former party system where both parties had a mix of liberals, conservatives and moderates?

For policy - making offices, there's been talk of an unwritten rule that Democratic candidates can't also run on the Conservative line because of ideological differences between the political parties.

Because in the end, the convenient ideological labels of liberal and conservative mean absolutely nothing as the liberals in Conress and througout the country are finding out now.