In March of that year, however, the official Commission for the Designation of the Righteous, a body presided over by a retired Israeli judge and created by Israeli law to decide who merits recognition as a "righteous," voted to reject the nomination.
Cruz told the audience that conservatives should stop being "politically correct" and start being "biblically correct," and grieved that when "the righteous" do not vote or participate in politics, that leaves only "the wicked to elect the wicked".
But to my complete dismay, the Commission for the Designation of the Righteous once again voted to reject the nomination.
The architects of Brexit like to frame the vote as a righteous backlash against powerful elites.
If this is true, the Tea Party will be drained of its self-righteous populism by the popular vote itself.
Whatever Mr Howard felt in his heart, he gave the impression of using toughness on crime as a pretext to whip up the indignation (and round up the votes) of the righteous, and especially the self-righteous.
Sure there's those out there who will buy into 24/7 we're right, they're wrong snake oil that push righteous anger right into the voting booth.
Why in the hell would I vote -- not one good, righteous Jewish would ever vote for any German from the Nazi Party..
And we can thank all the self-righteous radical purists who voted for Ralph Nader in 2000 for eight years of George W. Bush, the Iraq War, soaring energy prices, a disastrous economic policy, governmental contempt for fundamental civil rights, and the most conservative Supreme Court in memory.
In "Get Cha Issue" he insists that a gun-slinging crack dealer can be more righteous than hypocritical preachers, brutal policemen or politicians who voted for war in Iraq.
