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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. Trumps 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.
Im 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
(45,251 posts)JI7
(89,290 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)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
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(45,251 posts)things about Bernie? Which Democrat have you given your unqualified support?
tikka
(762 posts)Only our media would consider this news; just another pundit that should fade into obscurity.