Indeed, they have preferred Euro-friendly, and Israel-unfriendly rhetoric to the sober-minded pursuit of Israel's national interest.
As some sober-minded observers noted, the two sides have slow-danced together before, though more warily.
At sober-minded American Century (13th-largest fund family), where Ultra is the flagship, such commotion would be unseemly.
In the end, it turned out to be what some sober-minded analysts have called the worst business deal in history.
If, as the media warned, the public would reject a list comprised of sober-minded realists, one would have expected that support to drop.
Weisel's approach would scare any value investor, but at least he has a bunch of sober-minded institutional clients who are putting money on him.
Even commentators at the usually more sober-minded Fox News were giving President Obama "B" grades for his "success" in helping remove Qaddafi from power.
Our strategies must be rational, flexible and sober-minded if we are to chart a forward course rather than be thrown asunder by the coming storm.
More sober-minded watchers, however, noted that on Wall Street, when an opening stock sticks close to where it started, it means it was probably priced correctly to begin with.
Yet as Europe's immediate response to the Dubai operation makes clear, Europe itself has abandoned the sober-minded pursuit of its own interests, in favor of cowardly, feckless, self-defeating rhetoric.
But aside from driving the public discourse into the depths of ideological madness, Israel's embrace of fantasy has made it impossible for us to conduct a sober-minded discussion of our only real options.
If the Egyptian commandos hadn't arrived on the scene at the last moment, the situation would have been too explosive for a sober-minded assessment of the rapidly deteriorating situation with our neighbor to the south.
Particularly heartening is the prospect that the Committee on the Present Danger will, once again, serve as a vehicle for engaging sober-minded Democrats like Senator Lieberman, Director Woolsey and former Rep. Steven Solarz (D-NY), in the bipartisan advocacy of robust national security policies.
In selecting the party's slate of candidates for Knesset, Likud members favored sober-minded politicians who use their common sense to guide them over those with records of support for the fraudulent "peace processes" so favored by the local media, Kadima, Labor and the international jet set.
The second thing we learn from Ashton's anti-Israel mania is that when we engage in foreign policy, we need to base our judgments about our ability to influence the behavior of our foreign counterparts on a sober-minded assessment of two separate things: our interlocutor's ideology and his interests.
One might have intuited that the striking contrast between the sober-minded Likud party and the delusional and defeatist Kadima and Labor parties that was brought so prominently to the fore by the Likud primary would have been the central message that Netanyahu chose to convey in the days that have followed Monday's vote.
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