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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Thanks for the ping. If Trump does nothing but torment the Neocons, that alone is worth the price of admission.
Come back to your Party!! OUR PARTY!!We own it all!!
I read somewhere that Mary Matilan and James Carville both drink like fish.
And this is important to me because....? She’s married to serpenthead and as always been a closet Democrat like him. Tats whast Liberal- Tatiana are anyway. They’re just liberals who don’t was ant to admit what they are. Rand Paul is a libersal-tariasn any questions?
I hope you are not under the impression that Trump will be conservative.
The Nevada Republican Party is 90% RINO as far as I can tell.
Perhaps someday soon it will be time to rejoin.
Rinos are finished. They lost their party — there is nothing left. We get all their money, their offices— phone and computers — we own it all. We get a new republican chairman. I personally want Sarah Palin. We get their party credit cards— their phone banks— we get their voter lists— We are now owners of our party!! Go TRUMP!!
They never die or quit. After Reagan, Bush I fired all his conservative people in government and put in their own establishment people.
I know. But WE HAVE DESTROYED THEM. Together as the Trump nation we have now punished them and vanquished them into oblivion. They sold us out — over and over and over. When they put up their crappy candidates they told us to hold our nose. Now we have so many they can go to hell. We don’t need them.
She was a traitor since 1992 and NEVER should have earned one dime of Republican money after she married the serpent head. Good riddance. Only say I pity the Libertarians as she is REALLY a DEMOCRAT. She was sleeping with the enemy while she was still on the GOP payroll. Too bad the Bush family didn’t have the backbone to give her the boot 24 years ago!
She’s a Bushie. Never was really a party person, just with the Bush family.
Trump will bring people in and usher some out. Good riddance to bad rubbish. Hell the lady screws Carville and made babies with him. Now that is truly disgusting.
Who cares, she is so “has been” ever since she started keeping time with that new Orleans viper !
The old drunk hasn’t been much of anything for two decades
There was NO way she and snake head were on opposite sides as a married couple
Huh? What’s that got to do with Carville?
I got no problems with Libertarians.
she’s a space alien Larry!
Nina Easton - whose husband was some bigwig in Romney's failed presidential campaign - was LIVID earlier tonight on Greta Van Sustern's FNC show. I've never seen her so angry. She seemed to very much relish the idea of a "true Republican" third party candidate to run against Trump.
Are these so-called "brilliant" people insane?? Hillary will win in a landslide!
How many people at F.R. identify as republicans any more?
I don’t.
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