In many ways, the remark was as politically shrewd as anything else.
Besides being nobly humanitarian, it would be politically shrewd without endangering any Western interests.
Lawyers observing the trial said they were generally impressed by his presentation, saying it was politically shrewd and less amateurish than they had expected.
Anyone as politically shrewd as you must have figured that out by now.
Democrats and Republicans alike say the plan is politically shrewd.
The delegates' decision to include in their platform a plank supporting "reproductive rights for women" was morally sound and politically shrewd.
But Huxley would never have been so successful in turning his radicalism into common sense had he not been politically shrewd.
That language seemed then - and seems now - to be morally sound and politically shrewd.
He was probably uneasy rather than politically shrewd when he played "the Jesus card."
It was easy to forget he was also a politically shrewd and cautious man.