1.   After putting the boot into Big Bad Tobacco, doing likewise to Big Booze, Big Beer and Big Internal Combustion would be dumb politics.

2.   One longtime Dole ally even argued that it was dumb politics for Dole.

3.   Refusing to let the government operate or sell bonds in order to force approval of, for example, an increase in Medicare premiums is more than dumb politics.

4.   This is dumb politics.

5.   WASHINGTON - Once again, the Bush administration is belatedly realizing that slavishly serving the interests of major corporate buddies is both bad policy and dumb politics.