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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Have Pee-Wee Herman and the Kardashians switched yet?
Oh please Mary.
Jefferson and Madison are probably still spinning over in their bleeping graves over Dubai Ports, Harriet Meirs and what about that highway that never made it off the drawing board from TX all the way too Canada.
So I ask is the entire beltway in one of the 5 stages of Grief as they try to rap their heads around the potential downsizings that will be proposed in 2017?
My guess is they know the gravy train is up and they can't deal with it...
No matter how good or bad a president (and I assume the best case), DT will electrify. He will (not evolutionize, but) revolutionize the GOP.
I saw a pic of her recently and I would have never recognized her if it weren’t for a caption.
I haven’t seen her on tv in a long, long time.
Are these people crazy? Have they ever watched a Trump rally? Have the ever see the connection this man has with the working man? It’s fascinating to watch.
Mary just wants to be invited to all of the parties...
She can still vote for Trump in the general election. She didn’t say that she wouldn’t.
This woman is just another K st lobbyist/paid ‘believer’ married to the same...
Face it...her and Carville, if either of them really believed in party ‘principals’ could have NEVER been married this long!
It’s all a game of good cop/bad cop. Advisers like her aren’t going to be needed when Trump runs the RNC.
Who runs the GOP and owns Paul Ryan & Marco Rubio? Let’s name names! http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2016/05/who-runs-gop-and-owns-paul-ryan-marco.html
Or always has been.
Yes, she is Carville’s husband.
That the two are still married is proof that Matalin was never a conservative, she just pretended to be one in over to keep the Overton Window to the left aide of the political spectrum.
BAM!
That nails it.
The Kochs at work. They are libertarians at heart and running a strong libertarian would hurt Trump. Carville being tied to the Clinton’s reinforces plans may be in the works.
I went to a rally. Electric. All kinds of people there. All different backgrounds.
LOL, you do realize she is leaving the GOP because she views it as too liberal?
Agreed. A leftist like Carville has nothing, I repeat, nothing in common with conservatism. It would only bring madness, conflict and tragedy. And, no, sex wouldn’t be the deciding factor.
Can you imaging anything coupling with him other than a reptile?
She could certainly elbow Bruce Jenner out of the way to get to the urinal first.
“He will (not evolutionize, but) revolutionize the GOP.”
If pointing a bazooka at it and firing counts as “revolutionize”, than I guess you are right.
She looks remarkably like her husband in a wig.
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