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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMary Matalin just announced that she officially left the GOP today
https://twitter.com/Financeolizer/status/728467901838020608
Mary Matalin just announced on @bpolitics that she officially left the GOP today, enrolled as a Libertarian.
https://twitter.com/polibeast/status/728338633216950273
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Mary Matalin just announced that she officially left the GOP today (Original Post)
kpete
May 2016
OP
When your point of observation is somewhere to the left of Mao Tse Tung, everyone is on the right.
Buzz Clik
May 2016
#4
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)1. Cool. She is following my example ... but 25 years behind.
She'll be posting at DU by 2025.
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)2. You left the GOP?
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)4. When your point of observation is somewhere to the left of Mao Tse Tung, everyone is on the right.
Pardon me if I find it impossible to take your lame insults seriously.
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)5. It's not an insults.
It's of people have done it, it's a good thing.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)7. Nah, like many the GOP left them...
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)3. Maybe she has seen the light, James has given lots of guidance.
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)6. So now she's Libertarian batshit crazy rather than Republican batshit crazy.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)8. Libertarians are even crazier than
Republicans on economics, esp
TacoD
(581 posts)9. I followed the same trajectory, figured things out a lot sooner though
I was a Libertarian by my early 20's and a Democrat by my late 20's, so she's a little behind.
Bucky
(54,068 posts)11. To be fair, she was being paid millions to be Republican. That can affect trajectory.
If your job rewards you for thinking a certain way, only remarkable people will see beyond that incentive
katmondoo
(6,457 posts)10. She is looking better than usual
Someone gave her a makeover and it helped. Underneath still the same old Repub.