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Mary Matalin, Republican Strategist & Pundit, Changes Political Parties (let the RINO purge begin!)
NY Times ^ | May 5 2016

Posted on 05/05/2016 6:20:44 PM PDT by drewh

Mary Matalin, a high-profile political pundit and veteran strategist for the Republican Party, changed her party registration to Libertarian from Republican, she said on Thursday.

But in an interview with Bloomberg, which reported on the switch, she emphasized that her decision was not connected to Donald J. Trump’s being the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.

She described herself as a voter as a “provisional Trump” and a “never Hillary,” referring to the leading Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton.

Pressed on Thursday about why she switched political parties, Ms. Matalin told Bloomberg Politics that she was a Republican in the “Jeffersonian, Madisonian sense.”

“I’m not a Republican for a party or a person,” she continued. “The Libertarian Party represents those constitutional principles that I agree with.” Of Mr. Trump, Ms. Matalin said she liked his attitude and what she knew of his economic policies, adding: “I just don’t know enough. I think not only could he win, I think he could win in a landslide if he would stop his high school boy antics with women; otherwise he’s going to force suburban women to Hillary.”

She said conservatives were angry after two successive presidential elections in which they lost and with what appeared to be no response from Washington as the party was “falling apart.”

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TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: carville; marymatalin; matalin; notconservative; politicalwhore; realignment; sleepswithenemy; thirdparty
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To: drewh
Considering how the Republican elites have agreed with everything Obama has done, including the Corker Bill, the TPP/TPA, funding illegal immigration and passing the Obama Omnibus Bill that added $1 Trillion to the National Debt, Mary Matalin is correct. The Republican Party sucks.
41 posted on 05/05/2016 6:42:01 PM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: Objective Scrutator

Looked him up, surprised he’s only 71.
I assumed he was well into his 80s.


42 posted on 05/05/2016 6:43:31 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: Bryan24
Bingo!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3427968/posts?page=41#41

43 posted on 05/05/2016 6:43:52 PM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: null and void

He must have, especially since Jefferson was an early DEM; they just didn’t call themselves that back them.


44 posted on 05/05/2016 6:44:01 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: drewh

Mary always came across as someone on drugs, her manner, tome, appearance. She talked in slurred speech manner and I always wondered about her, never really liked her or cared.
GOPe all the way!!!!!!!!!!!


45 posted on 05/05/2016 6:44:20 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

“Many Libertarians like Trump.”

Glad they do.

Think many of the young Bernie fans will eventually sour on the idea of Socialism and drift Libertarian ..

Madeline wants to be their grandma ..

And have a place at the fiscally conservative / socially liberal table.


46 posted on 05/05/2016 6:47:43 PM PDT by jcon40
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To: Bryan24

Wrong. She is leaving because she is not socially conservative. Other than that she is/was very much establishment and on the Bush team as in getting paid and very close to Bush and Cheney for years.

She is up to something, but at a glance what she is telling everyone is that she is still a RINO but doesn’t like the socially conservative stuff. Meaning she is probably very much pro-abortion, etc.

Also, she is VERY VERY close to Rush. And the Bush family. She was expecting to be a huge spokesperson for Jeb. Now she’s in no where land, while her husband is bringing in more money because the Corrupt Clintons might be on the General ticket in November.


47 posted on 05/05/2016 6:49:25 PM PDT by Pic7
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To: drewh
No one has to be a Republican to vote for Trump. If she says she is voting Trump, that's fine with me. There will be a lot of Independents, Libertarians, Republicans, and Democrats who will vote for Trump.
48 posted on 05/05/2016 6:49:27 PM PDT by deweyfrank (Nobody's Perfect)
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To: GOPe Means Bend Over Spell Run

The Bushes dropped her when she married Cueball.


49 posted on 05/05/2016 6:50:20 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Never held a job in the private sector;never met a payroll,never created a job - CRUZ! Conservative!)
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To: VerySadAmerican
The Bushes dropped her when she married Cueball.

FALSE.

She was Cheney's biggest leaker, spokesperson to the press.

Mary Matalin was such a regular at the Bush Whitehouse, she basically had her own makeshift cubicle.

50 posted on 05/05/2016 6:53:26 PM PDT by Pic7
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To: drewh

So what’s a “provisional Trump” voter? If Mary isn’t an “absolutely Trump” at this point, then she most certainly is an “always Hillary” voter.


51 posted on 05/05/2016 6:56:54 PM PDT by Girlene
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To: drewh

another “high dollar consultant”


52 posted on 05/05/2016 7:03:13 PM PDT by Oratam
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To: drewh

I have never lived in a state that required party registration, but I wish I did, so I could perform that symbolic gesture if I wanted to.


53 posted on 05/05/2016 7:09:45 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: nascarnation

Too bad he isn’t 68...as in room temperature.


54 posted on 05/05/2016 7:10:06 PM PDT by Thumper1960 (Trump-2016)
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To: Graybeard58

How many people at F.R. identify as republicans any more?

I don’t.

######

I reached the end of the road in 2012.


55 posted on 05/05/2016 7:10:18 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (That giant flushing sound is the New Whirled Order, going down the tubes.)
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To: Psalm 144

Her and Carville are laughing all the way to the bank.


56 posted on 05/05/2016 7:17:27 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: drewh


57 posted on 05/05/2016 7:24:01 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Islam is Islam. Democracy is the train we ride to our ultimate victory. (Recep Erdogan))
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To: DIRTYSECRET; Fantasywriter; miss marmelstein

“Her and Carville are laughing all the way to the bank.”

It is sort of a microcosm of what the Libertarians are bringing in on their own heads. They are actively seeking out and encouraging the most bitterly disaffected from the GOPe and the Cruz camps. What will they get?

NEOCONS and DOMINIONISTS.

In the LIBERTARIAN party?!?!?

Too funny. I had hopes years ago for the Libertarians, but they have ignored the leadership vacuum for several cycles now, and they now actively solicit the most rigid, ineffective malcontents from the Republican party.

As others have pointed out, Best Election Ever!


58 posted on 05/05/2016 7:24:40 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (That giant flushing sound is the New Whirled Order, going down the tubes.)
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To: drewh

No big loss. She was never a conservative. She sabotaged Bush I’s re-election.


59 posted on 05/05/2016 7:28:36 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: WENDLE

I got the hell out the Republican Party some time ago and went Independent American Party because of the GOPe.

I am voting Trump because he gives me hope. Hillary is just a synonym for Death and Destruction.


60 posted on 05/05/2016 7:32:21 PM PDT by pleasenotcalifornia
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