Some believe it's worth noting that even as self-righteous candidate Miller decries government handouts, he and his family earlier received taxpayer subsidies for a farm he owned.
The candidates -- Romney, Gingrich, and Santorum -- are making their case for state Republicans, trying to convince voters that they are the most conservative, righteous, and fit candidates, who could beat Obama in November.
In his soft-spoken way, he also denounced same-sex marriage, and a girl holding a Bauer sign yelled, "That's cool!" Of course, some social conservatives have indicated they like to see some righteous anger in their candidate, more along the lines of the perpetually churning Alan Keyes, who bested Mr. Bauer in Iowa.
That's one reason I was delighted to encounter campaign material hawking Spencer Blackhart for Mayor, who boasts that "This election is about convictions and, if you look at my record, I have far more than any other candidate!" Self-righteous conservative bigots litter the landscape of literature as well as real life.
It does seem incredulous that Republican candidates, full of righteous pontifications have handed the largest, most important voting bloc to the Democrats as it escalates its on-going war on women.
Steve Benen has a righteous rant about pundits who judge candidates on whether they "look like a president".
Yet Poiret also perpetrated the hobble skirt, which makes him a problematic candidate for a feminist Wall of the Righteous.
As he traveled through California, a stop in Stanford was greeted by newspaper headlines that asked the candidate whether he "want[ed] to make righteous speeches...or end the Viet Nam War".
The Progressive candidate, Henry A. Wallace, was aloof, mystical and self-righteous; his campaign against the cold war and for an expanded New Deal unwittingly defined the limits of postwar liberalism.
The conventional wisdom is that before New Hampshire, Sanders's campaign was a bit of a lost cause romantic, crusading, righteous in a way, but without a chance of the candidate actually becoming president.
Pundits, presidential candidates, and others who believe it can be righteous to proclaim otherwise should take note.
