Singapore's police had stopped bothering gays not because her brother's antics had spurred the political organizing that wins civil-rights victories but because a shrewd ruling party had figured out that gays are good for the economy.
They are among the most shrewd tacticians either party has had, and they both came up through the appropriations committees.
The shrewd cleric's own party, the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam runs hundreds of madrassas across the frontier.
But Lib Dems are distrustful of quotas, whether from instinctive dislike of central control or a shrewd realisation that the party relies on high-profile local campaigners for success.
MEXICO CITY — The historic choice of a woman as its presidential candidate may turn out to be a shrewd move for the party of Mexico's incumbent president, political analysts said Monday, allowing it to capitalize on the growing power of women in politics and offering a fresh approach for a party that has been mired in a bloody drug war.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a former Socialist Finance Minister and a shrewd observer of his party's wafflings, describes this now as a kind of Sophie's choice between "the democracy solution," which acknowledges differences, and "the republic solution," which says that when you're a citizen you behave like one.
It was difficult for these groups to recognize the self-deceptive nature of supporting the AfD, owing to the party's shrewd strategy that hid its radical market-based agenda while highlighting immigration and refugee problems.
As the chief recruiter of 2010 Republican congressional candidates, he is the party's shrewdest strategist in years — a non-profane Republican Rahm Emanuel, though that may be an oxymoron.
Scruffy galleries have gone up along the city's edges, most notably Appetite, an irreverent, punk-inflected gallery in San Telmo started by Daniela Luna, a feisty 30-year-old known for her shrewd eye and cool parties.
