Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, who calls himself the former president's ideological heir, said, "He's brilliant, both on policy and politics."

But he had this to say to Mr. Schundler, his ideological heir: drop the electability argument, and tell the voters the game was fixed.

The entrepreneurial young men of the gangsta culture are surely her ideological heirs.

Lubbers was regarded by many during his time in office as an ideological heir to Margaret Thatcher.

Using "ugly distortions" of the judge's record, liberal Democrats demonized him as the ideological heir to Simon Legree.

But others among Rabbi Kahane's ideological heirs say the link is less coincidental.

His critics were ideological heirs to Ronald Reagan, warning yet again that efficient, compassionate Government is a boiling contradiction in terms.

Now the ideological heirs of Carter and Mondale are trying again to sell the public a false bill of goods.

General Noriega has presented himself as the ideological heir to General Torrijos, who died in a plane crash in 1981.