Language redundancy

It's an extravagance on the part of the English language that it contains simultaneously words such as 'cerulean' and 'azure', when 'blue' would be quite enough.

In the same vein, I'd suggest that the words 'criminal' and 'republican' are simply variations on a theme and in need of some verbal economy.

This not least because, for all the pious mouth music about values and family and god and all that good stuff, they just can't seem to stop getting convicted of felonies.

Cynical hypocrites, or manipulative, two-faced gasbags?

Yes.