Republican strategists used to assume that social issues were a vote-winner for them; now they seem to worry that too much righteous talk will put off centrists by making the party seem unpalatably moralising.
The little we know about politicians or their positions is based on our emotional responses to mindless 30-second TV spots, or short blasts of TV "news," or button-pushing diatribes from self-righteous talk show hosts.
McCain's response to Bush's Haskell gambit will be instructive to future candidates: he dropped his own negative ads and turned righteous; he talked about wanting to be President in the "best way," not the worst; he congratulated himself for "inspiring a new generation" of voters.
My bomb can't be scratched and will spit out messages of righteous words, talking about hopes and dreams.
Thou art far kinder, we're talking righteous bush.
Betsy full of righteous anger & indignation – talking about the phone call #doprah — SuzeCY (@festinagirl) 18 Jan 13 Betsy a wonderful, thoughtful, caring person.
I loved the scene between the fantastically fierce Lyanna Mormont, righteous dismisser of small talk, and Davos – it reminded me of all those times with Shireen.
Jonathan Portes has a righteous rant about Eurocrats talking to the wrong people — namely, rating agencies: These agencies have repeatedly been proved wrong; they have flawed and frequently conflicted business models; and their ratings have no predictive power.
Why is it that when politicians want to demonstrate just how religiously righteous they are, they talk about banning same-sex marriage and making contraceptives hard to get, instead of showing what they have done to protect the weak?
The field is vast, but here are 10 from the 1920s to the present that talk that talk in a suitably righteous fashion.
But people talk about a righteous way.
