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Democrats portrayed Reichert as an ultra-conservative empty suit who mismanaged the state's largest county sheriff's office.
CNN: Reichert defeats Ross in open seat battle
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Marcial Maciel, a Mexican priest who founded the Legionaries of Christ, an ultra-conservative Catholic movement, was a serial abuser.
ECONOMIST: Mexico's culture wars
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Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose followers are battling U.S. troops, takes his spiritual direction from an ultra-conservative, Iran-based, Iraqi-exile cleric.
CNN: Report: Iran invites Iraq's Allawi
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Javier was an ultra-conservative, pro-Franco follower of the Opus Dei, and he never ceased to scandalize me with his political opinions, which I strained to understand in my developing Spanish.
WSJ: Escabeche: A Seafood Dish for the Fish-Phobe
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Abu Mohammad, a fighter for Ahrar al-Sham, a prominent rebel brigade in northern Syria with an ultra-conservative ideology, said Qatar, as well as Turkey, "is interested in ruling Syria" once the regime is toppled.
NPR: Qatar Faces Backlash Among Rebel Groups In Syria
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The trap he fell into in 1994 (albeit of his own making) was in enabling his Democratic opponents to portray him as an ultra-conservative, in part because he chose as a running-mate a man who had been a champion of the right-wing Christian Coalition.
ECONOMIST: Florida politics
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In an ultra-conservative state where half the population goes to church every week and there are twice as many guns as people, Austin is an outcrop of pink hair amid the rednecks - an easy-living university town where intellectual slackers, pregnant punks and IT millionaires co-exist in harmony.
BBC: The perfect chilli con carne in the heart of Texas