But like the panic over marriage, this panic over the F word is more ideological than a realistic assessment of the world as we know it.
In the late nineteen-nineties, William Cooper, a wealthy bank executive and conservative activist, became chairman of the Minnesota Republican Party, and started to demand more ideological purity.
American politics has been getting more ideological and partisan for the past quarter-century, as the conservative South has transferred its allegiance from the Democrats to the Republicans.
Arguably, there are more ideological differences within the party than with its rival, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which governed Japan for most of the half-century to 2009.
Republican candidates and the new House members are now fixated not on voters in general, who want the parties to co-operate, but on the more ideological ones who will vote in the primaries.
Lamar Alexander, who has an office of fifty people, pointed out that staff members, who are younger and often more ideological than their bosses, and less dependent on institutional relationships, tend to push senators toward extremes.
And the more ideological objection is that it would be a de facto statement that the banks have no idea what they're doing when lending - and that's quite hard to sustain for a government that wants to privatise RBS and Lloyds at the earliest opportunity.
Interestingly, conservative pollster Frank Luntz found that clear majorities of NRA members are more reasonable about implementing such common sense measures than their more rigidly ideological parent organization.
Moreover, the Qatari link with Libyan Islamist radicals, such as the Salabi brothers in Benghazi, who include a prominent preacher and a leader of the strongest armed Islamist brigade, is probably personal more than ideological.
But as a Cuban-American, he has motives that are more personal and ideological than purely political.
Lillian Lamonato, 75, a Romney supporter from South Carolina, said winning in November is more important than ideological purity.
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The Bush tax cut owes far more to the ideological conservatism of Ronald Reagan than to the cautious managerialism of Dwight Eisenhower.
However, there are other commentators who focus more on the ideological differences and potential conflicts that may ensue after Chavez's departure.
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The biggest problem for the Liberals, a centrist, big-tent party, is that Canadian politics has become less European and consensual and more American and ideological.
He is more of an ideological conservative than his elder brother.
And while Lessig and Meckler may disagree about just about every ideological issue, their respect for the wisdom and dignity of the citizens unites them in a realm far more important than the ideological.
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Final Prediction: Romney will be attacked more and more for a variety of ideological sins, but the subtext will always be that Romney is just too smart and too much like Obama.
Ecuador and Bolivia are more absorbed by internal politics than ideological struggles.
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Stuart Taylor, a legal writer, argues that the court should have ruled more narrowly, unzipping speech by ideological groups but keeping the curbs on for-profit corporations.
This year, the field appears likely to narrow more quickly, helping an opponent roll up social conservatives, tea-party backers and ideological purists, who might otherwise have been more fractured.
They, on the other hand, thought themselves to be much more politically astute and believed that they would be far more effective by jettisoning Reagan's ideological baggage.
Circuit with extraordinarily conservative judges, and they don't want any more jurists on the bench to dilute that ideological power.
But unlike the liberal ideological baby boom generation, millennials are more pragmatic.
Many of their voters care more about bread-and-butter issues than ideological ones.
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Here politics matters much more, both because voters are more protective of their perks and because there are genuine ideological choices to be made.
The danger now is that because of this affair, instead of scrutinizing all 501(c)(4) applications regardless of the applicants' ideological perspective, a chastened IRS will let more and more applications slide by with minimal inspection.
The Republican Party is divided between the ideological, often divisive politicians in Congress and the more practical, consensus-seeking governors in state capitols.
Yet in recent years, for many reasons, American politics has become more strident and divided, and often along personal rather than ideological lines.
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Snyder wants to make the slaughter less ideological and technological than it has seemed, and more geographic and territorial: a question not so much of evil ideas carried out by industrial means as of ancient hatreds brought to life by modern monsters in ancient terrain.
But Mr Kerry, even more than Mr Bush, has reason to fear the trap of ideological labels.
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