1.   Campaign strategists are calling the plan a clever political gambit.

2.   Further, Weld insulted the intelligence of many progressive white women who see this move for what it is, a political gambit born of self-interest.

3.   It cannot be pigeonholed as merely a mean-spirited political gambit or an unarguable moral question.

4.   Rosenfield characterized the prosecution as a political gambit by Fisher to raise his profile for a future run for governor.