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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Looked him up, surprised he’s only 71.
I assumed he was well into his 80s.
He must have, especially since Jefferson was an early DEM; they just didn’t call themselves that back them.
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!!!!!!!!!!!
“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.
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.
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.
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.
another “high dollar consultant”
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.
Too bad he isn’t 68...as in room temperature.
How many people at F.R. identify as republicans any more?
I don’t.
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I reached the end of the road in 2012.
Her and Carville are laughing all the way to the bank.
“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!
No big loss. She was never a conservative. She sabotaged Bush I’s re-election.
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.
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