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Republican strategist Mary Matalin argued that President Donald Trump is “not the cause” of the lack of civility or “bad behavior” seen among the American electorate, adding that America’s political discourse has been “worse” in the past. Matalin predicted that the GOP is going to pick up seats in the Senate on Tuesday and won’t lose the majority in the House of Representatives. “Nobody knows who they are anymore and all these labels mean nothing. And in the middle of that, instead of debating, we started calling each other names. This Trump, as I’ve often said and as you can...

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.

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.”...

ORANGE - Two of the nation's most prominent political consultants visited Orange Monday night. Mary Matalin and James Carville were part of the Distinguished Lecture Series hosted by Lamar State College-Orange. They spoke to a crowd of more than 600 at the Lutcher Theater. The two represent different political parties, Matalin is a Republican and Carville is a Democrat. Both have presidential wins under their belts. Matalin with George H.W. Bush and Carville with Bill Clinton. Matalin and Carville have been married for 22 years. Before they took the stage at the Lutcher, they met with 12News. They were both...

FORMER CHENEY AIDE SIGNS CHENEY DAUGHTER TO BOOK DEAL **Exclusive** A former senior adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney has signed Cheney's daughter to a book deal, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. The curious and bold first acquisition of former Cheney adviser Mary Matalin in her new position at publisher SIMON & SCHUSTER is valued in the mid-six figures, top sources reveal. A top executive at VIACOM, parent of SIMON & SCHUSTER, who asked not to be named, was initally alarmed the deal would be seen as a "Thank You" from Matalin to the Cheneys. "It's so not the case,"...

I should have suspected something was brewing as soon as I saw that Katie Couric had on Mary Matalin, alone, as an interview guest. The Today Show almost never has on Republican spokesmen by themselves unless an attack is planned. The putative topic of the interview was VP Cheney's speech later today promoting the re-adoption of the Patriot Act. But then Katie launched the sneak attack: "but before we get to that . . . " The first attack was on the left's favorite bugaboo - Halliurbton. Katie cited an email alleging that the awarding of contracts to Halliburton had...

Listening to Rush interview Mary Matalin. It is a very good interview. Rush even asked how "serpenthead" is doing at the beginning and Mary said that that they don't talk politics in an election year. They went on to talk about how the democrats and the media are going into basic overkill overdrive over abu gharib. After the break, Rush and Mary, talked about Mary's new book "Letters to my Daughters". It is basically Mary writing down advice for her daughters if she passes away. She did it because her mother passed away when she was young. They got into...

WEST WINDSOR, N.J. (AP) — Republican strategist Mary Matalin is writing a book — but not on politics. Matalin, who was Vice President Dick Cheney's top public relations strategist until she resigned in December to spend more time with her young daughters, is writing the book for Matty, 7, and Emma, 5. The book, slated for publication for Mother's Day 2004, is tentatively titled, "Letters to My Daughters." Matalin says it will be filled with motherly advice about life; "everything I want them to know (after I'm gone.)" "I want to crystallize my own value system for them," said Matalin,...

While the MSM is utterly consumed by the Foleygate Scandal, they are missing out on a huge political fratricide story in which the Leftwing Blogosphere is now blaming James Carville for their 2004 election loss. You probably haven't heard about this story yet because the likes of Chris Matthews and Tim Russert are having urinations of happiness in their diapers promoting the Foley story as the way to keep the "fundies" from turning out on election day due to what the MSM think will be their gullibility in swallowing the MSM promoted message that that they will blame the...

by Mark Finkelstein March 29, 2006 A quick take on a morning when I'm headed to Washington, DC. Sometimes, you just can't win with the MSM. For weeks, the MSM has been calling for a White House shake-up. So when it came in spades yesterday with the resignation of chief of staff Andy . . . Card [spades, Card. Come on, tough room here!], naturally the media applauded the bold move. Or not. Veteran NewsBusters readers know better. There is no appeasing the liberal media. They recalibrate their line of attack and move on. But who could have predicted the...

Fox News Sunday (Chris Wallace) Memes: As usual it looks like Fox is reversing the main meme of the other shows: the usual suspects (Dems/MSM) are trying to blame the grown ups for a natural disasterThe MSM are out of their tiny minds, particularly CNN for lashing out at Brit Hume and Fox for the Cheney interviewThey are giving Evan Bayh a platform for trying to run right of George Bush on IRANThey are giving Lindsey Graham a platform to auditioning as John McCain's VP candidate, therefore he will take the Democrat talking points on NSA and repeat them, ad...

Reuters writes:Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh is expected to visit Afghanistan with the top U.S. aid official to spotlight America's aid work there, officials said last week. Political commentator Mary Matalin will also be on the trip. She said she was not being paid to go and would pay her own way to Dubai but she believed the U.S. government would cover the cost of her visit to Afghanistan from there. The Bush administration has come under sharp criticism for the Education Department's payment of $240,000 to conservative commentator Armstrong Williams to tout Bush's education plan. Spokesmen for...

REPUBLICAN REPORTS FROM IOWA! (Mayor Guiliani, Cong Portman, Gov Owens, Sen Frist, Sen Santorum, Mary Matlin) January 19, 2004 Mayor Rudy Giuliani's Message from Cedar Rapids It's warmer and sunnier here than in New York. After months and months of just hearing from the Democrats, I am here with a group of Republicans who want to tell the President's side of the story. I spoke with a woman during lunch at Bishop's here in Cedar Rapids -- great mac and cheese and try the chocolate ambrosia pie -- and she said that listening to the negative attacks from the...

Options For Dealing With Same-Sex Marriage Licenses Mar. 3, 2004 Phyllis Schlafly Congress overwhelmingly passed and President Bill Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in 1996, and there it rested peacefully on the law books until this year. Recent events are now placing the monkey squarely on the back of President George W. Bush to do his constitutional duty to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed." It's not enough that he is "troubled" about the marriage licenses that have been issued to over 3,000 same-sex couples in San Francisco and 26 in New Mexico, and may...

Yes and no. Yes, as in, it is possible, and no, as in, it’s not normal in the soul sense. Of course, one immediately thinks of famous, mysteriously married, bi-partisan power-couples such as top republican consultant Mary Matalin and top democrat strategist James Carville. They’ve been happily wedded for twenty years. Amazingly, they actually met (in 1991) while each was about to be hired to manage opposing presidential campaigns; Matalin for George H. W. Bush, and Carville for Bill Clinton. They claim publicly that they don’t talk politics at home. When they appear on TV together, it’s actually pretty amusing...

KRUGMAN: That kills charitable deductions. It hits the middle class hard. If you do it -- if you do it right -- we've done this, right... MATALIN: Are you an economist or a polemicist? (CROSSTALK) KRUGMAN: There's only -- there's only $450 billion that you can get by doing that. MATALIN: Do you want to talk about economy or do you want to talk about polemics? KRUGMAN: No, this is not true. MATALIN: We have two different ways of going forward. We will not have Medicare, we will not have Social Security. You have senior Democrat Dick Durbin saying Social...

For all of you political junkies who have not seen the Carville And Matalin Mitsubishi commercials here they are. These commercials are hilarious.

AND NOW . . . amidst billowing clouds of fragrant, aromatic first- and second-hand premium cigar smoke. . . it is time for . . . that harmless, lovable little fuzz ball, the highly-trained broadcast specialist, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, from behind the golden EIB microphone, firmly ensconced in the prestigious Attila-the-Hun chair at the Limbaugh Institute of Advanced Conservative Studies, serving humanity simply by showing up, and he’s not retiring until every American agrees with him, do NOT doubt him, with shrieks of joy at the mere mention of his name...

Here is video of ABC’s George Stephanopoulos talking with GOP Strategist Mary Matalin and Democrat Strategist Donna Brazile about the chances of Republicans winning control of Congress in the upcoming Midterm Elections. Brazile put the odds at “50-50,” while Matalin said the GOP would win back the House, and that they had a “9 in 10″ chance of taking the U.S. Senate as well.

A short clip, James keeps laughing while she's talking and Mary gets angry and almost ends the interview, from John King USA