«Sniping from the sidelines» and doing
the politically safe thing perfectly describe the Republican position.
Not exact matches
In fact, a colleague steered me to a petition hosted on the site itself that just about sums
things up, «We demand a vapid, condescending, meaningless,
politically safe response to this petition.»
The Democratic strategist involved in the effort said that Cuomo continues the gun control fight even though he suffered
politically among Republicans and voters upstate and in the Hudson Valley after passage of the
SAFE Act, which «was the right
thing to do.»
What we've tried to do is engage with Democrats, to make it
politically safe for them to do what they know in their heart of hearts is the right
thing.