Mary Matalin, Republican Strategist and Pundit, Changes Political Parties

[RandySF]

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 Politics, 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.”


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/06/us/mary-matalin-republican-strategist-and-pundit-changes-political-parties.html?_r=0

[merrily]

1. I will never understand the Carville Matalin attraction/marriage, but, then again, I'm not in it.

[JI7]

3. they have similar taste when it comes to design

[merrily]

4. I remember how I used to cringe when I saw that Russert had him on as the Democrat and her as the

Republican "balance." He folded like a cheap suit every time. Once, he even literally smashed a raw egg into his forehead to emphasize how wrong he'd been. It was embarrassing.

[msongs]

2. provisional trump but never hillary. she would fit right in with a bunch of people on DU nt

[merrily]

5. Where do you fit, msongs, given you've posted about Hillary being a Republican and also posted nasty

things about Bernie? Which Democrat have you given your unqualified support?

[tikka]

6. Who gives a flying f$ck about Matlin or Carville

Only our media would consider this news; just another pundit that should fade into obscurity.