Mary Matalin, Republican Strategist and Pundit, Changes Political Parties
Source: New York Times
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.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/06/us/mary-matalin-republican-strategist-and-pundit-changes-political-parties.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur
yardwork
(61,608 posts)Deuce
(959 posts)BigDemVoter
(4,150 posts)I don't care how she votes. . . . She has no credibility anyway after the buffoons she's ALREADY worked and voted for.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Mostly Republican leaning, untrustworthy, and in this case, somewhat nuts.
villager
(26,001 posts)elleng
(130,901 posts)IronLionZion
(45,442 posts)Salviati
(6,008 posts)but are dumb enough to vote for them anyway.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)that libertarians are republicans who want to smoke weed and get laid. In my experience, that about sums it up.
24601
(3,962 posts)smoking weed & getting laid.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)while others hide behind "family values". It's the hypocrisy.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,034 posts)Never registered as a Dem, but only voted for one Repub so far, because i knew him, he was a diligent public servant running for county board, and was active in emergency action agencies for tornadoes and things like that.
Very nice man and he's not a raving lunatic of a repub.
But, mostly i'm anti-republican because i don't believe the things they believe.
And i'm no libertarian because the philosophy seems simple-minded to me.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)tabasco
(22,974 posts)and her husband could join too.
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)Those two PERSONIFY the term: Nut Jobs. Pundit show "consultant" freaks - accent on the "con" part.
tom_kelly
(959 posts)Skittles
(153,160 posts)who does she think she is kidding?
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)There will be more. We will have to wait and see if Libertarians become the new home of conservatives of a certain Ilk.
Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)Solly Mack
(90,766 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,835 posts)...Trump's going to send republican weasels running for cover under the libertarian tent.
sofa king
(10,857 posts)redwitch
(14,944 posts)And I don't like to think about her, wish she hadn't turned up again.
rockfordfile
(8,702 posts)"changed her party registration to Libertarian from Republican" Really no difference. Once the person begins to speak.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)hmmmmf.
CobaltBlue
(1,122 posts)A year ago or so, Mary Matalin got into a debate with former Michigan governor Jennifer Grahnolm on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher.
Their discussion wasn't heated.
But, Matalin basically said that, for women generally, a woman U.S. president is not an aspiration.
Well, if that is true, then how Matalin has made her living is another example of what a woman should not aspire to become.
I thought she was full of *s*.
So, Mary Matalin is rejecting the Republican Party!
I think she is merely on break from the Republican Party.
mitty14u2
(1,015 posts)WASHINGTON Hopes of stopping Donald Trump short of the Republican nomination ahead of this summers convention came to a crashing end Tuesday night after Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas dropped out of the race following his loss in Indiana.
What hope remains is being channeled into a Plan C: Have another Republican run for office in addition to Trump.
Around Washington, chatter about the possibility of an independent run by a traditional conservative is becoming louder. It is fueled in part by the business end of the political cycle: Campaign consultants eagerly await and financially plan for the quadrennial, billion-dollar payday that is a presidential election.
Rest assured, the Donald Trump campaign will offer no shortage of opportunities for grifters. But if youve been a charter member of the Washington establishment, your calls probably arent getting returned as quickly as you might like, especially if youve spent the past half-year typing the #NeverTrump hashtag into your Twitter feed.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/plan-c-republican-establishment-chattering-about-a-third-party-run_us_57295dcbe4b016f378941d68
they are using the third party to keep the house and senate if Paul Ryan Doesn't jump in.
aggiesal
(8,914 posts)The current Republican Party is running with the exact same
platform that the Libertarian Party ran in 1980 when David Koch,
yes one of the Koch brothers, ran as the Libertarian Vice Presidential
candidate.
Let me know if any of this sounds familiar.
Here are just a few excerpts of the Libertarian Party platform that David Koch ran on in 1980:
- We urge the repeal of federal campaign finance laws, and the immediate abolition of the despotic Federal Election Commission.
- We favor the abolition of Medicare and Medicaid programs.
- We oppose any compulsory insurance or tax-supported plan to provide health services, including those which finance abortion services.
- We also favor the deregulation of the medical insurance industry.
- We favor the repeal of the fraudulent, virtually bankrupt, and increasingly oppressive Social Security system. Pending that repeal, participation in Social Security should be made voluntary.
- We propose the abolition of the governmental Postal Service. The present system, in addition to being inefficient, encourages governmental surveillance of private correspondence. Pending abolition, we call for an end to the monopoly system and for allowing free competition in all aspects of postal service.
- We oppose all personal and corporate income taxation, including capital gains taxes.
- We support the eventual repeal of all taxation.
- As an interim measure, all criminal and civil sanctions against tax evasion should be terminated immediately.
- We support repeal of all law which impede the ability of any person to find employment, such as minimum wage laws.
- We advocate the complete separation of education and State. Government schools lead to the indoctrination of children and interfere with the free choice of individuals. Government ownership, operation, regulation, and subsidy of schools and colleges should be ended.
- We condemn compulsory education laws
and we call for the immediate repeal of such laws.
- We support the repeal of all taxes on the income or property of private schools, whether profit or non-profit.
- We support the abolition of the Environmental Protection Agency.
- We support abolition of the Department of Energy.
- We call for the dissolution of all government agencies concerned with transportation, including the Department of Transportation.
- We demand the return of America's railroad system to private ownership. We call for the privatization of the public roads and national highway system.
- We specifically oppose laws requiring an individual to buy or use so-called "self-protection" equipment such as safety belts, air bags, or crash helmets.
- We advocate the abolition of the Federal Aviation Administration.
- We advocate the abolition of the Food and Drug Administration.
- We support an end to all subsidies for child-bearing built into our present laws, including all welfare plans and the provision of tax-supported services for children.
- We oppose all government welfare, relief projects, and aid to the poor programs. All these government programs are privacy-invading, paternalistic, demeaning, and inefficient. The proper source of help for such persons is the voluntary efforts of private groups and individuals.
- We call for the privatization of the inland waterways, and of the distribution system that brings water to industry, agriculture and households.
- We call for the repeal of the Occupational Safety and Health Act.
- We call for the abolition of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
- We support the repeal of all state usury laws.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)since being libertarian got them nowhere.
It's shocking to me that any middle class person could buy in to their garbage.
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)Then stormed off CNN and said she was done with politics?
Fuck her.
BlueMTexpat
(15,369 posts)SecularMotion
(7,981 posts)Javaman
(62,530 posts)I mean, really, how could she not switch to being a repuke!