In an era of strained budgets and competing priorities, it is politically foolish for the unions to alienate parents and essentially encourage families to leave public schools.

But Republican officials said it would be politically foolish for the party to dispatch aides to lurk around for nasty rumors about Mr. Clinton and Mr. Perot.

Both Liberals and Social Democrats condemned the Steel-Maclennan proposal to raise taxes on food and children's clothing and phase out the tax exemption for home mortgages as politically foolish.

The president's advisers point out the obvious: it is politically foolish to waste time in New York.

Lumumba's attack was historically accurate but politically foolish.

Whether technically illegal or not, it was politically foolish and counterproductive to mislead Congress, even if misleading took the form of artful evasion or silence instead of overt misstatement.

This policy seems both wrong in principle and politically foolish.

"It would be politically foolish and substantively indefensible for the Governor to veto any piece of this spending."

Even if the IRS had determined policy, beyond its authority in deciding, opposing this case would be politically foolish.

But others, like Eddie Mahe, a prominent Republican consultant, consider those arguments politically foolish.