Is anyone bothered that James Carville and Mary Matalin are married?

[still_one]

How can two people with such different views share the same bed?

It's not like parents or siblings where you have no choice, they have a choice

Is this just entertainment for them? An oddity to enrich their pocketbooks?

I could never trust someone sleeping with the enemy

[starwolf]

1. I just hope they adopt. I am not sure either should be allowed to breed.

[kittenpants]

3. they're the most annoying from each party...

okay, Matalin is in about a million-way tie with a bunch of other repubs, but Carville is an out and out winner.

[still_one]

4. to late

[starwolf]

11. I actually know they have at least one child,

but felt it was the best way to express my disgust at their professional behaviors.

[mandyky]

15. 2 small daughters

The media thinks it is a joke. But James really is a conservative Democrat.

[hiley]

21. that is the truth

but lately he is leaning (in my opinion) toward Dixie Crat.
I think Matlin got to him.

[autorank]

16. starwolf, Welcome to DU!!!! You beat me to it but we share sick minds.

However, as an adoptee, let me just stick up for my unique interest group. Placing someone in that home would double the normal problems with adoption and engender in the adoptee a long term problem with 'betrayal' due to the placement. On the other hand, maybe we could place a little "Damien" with them and see who survives (I'm betting on Matalin).

[leesa]

2. I am bothered by the fact that Carville is supposedly a spokesman

for the Democrats but he doesn't even have the ability to convince his wife not to work for Satan himself. What the hell kind of Dem pundit is that?

[still_one]

5. you expressed far better than I did

[mandyky]

18. I am sure the other side thinks the same way about

Mary not able to control James. They met in the political arena, if I'm not mistaken.

[rpannier]

20. pukes probably argue the same thing about her

that's a two-way street.

[Rowdyboy]

The kind that respects that his wife is an independant person and just

because he is her husband, he does not control her life, her opinions or her career. I don't care for Mary Matalin, but she has a right to be wrong politically and her husband supports her in exercising that right.

Could I live with a right winger? Oh, hell, no. But I admire Carville for respecting his wife's individuality and supporting her in her professional life.

[sendero]

34. Or maybe...

.. one or both of them see their jobs as merely careers and have no real psychic foundation for their professed political belief.

Or, put more simply, maybe it is just a game to them.

[Rowdyboy]

35. Honestly, I've thought about that but I just can't bring myself to believe

it. I think they're both sincere, serious individuals and I'm amazed their marriage has survived.

[sendero]

40. Well...

... the only way I could be married to that wingnut bitch would be to think of the whole thing as a game.

And frankly, if pressed to make an explanation, that would be it.

[leesa]

43. Right. So if your wife, or whatever, was the working partner of a mass

murderer, and fully aware of those murders, you would support her opinions about it, and support her in that endeavor?

[Sir Craig]

6. Bothered? Nope.

Silly as this may sound, politics is not the end-all, be-all of existence. I would prefer to think that love is a little more important, and if Carville and Matalin love one another, that's awesome.

Sometimes people forget these things...

[still_one]

9. that's cool, but when issues such as

social security
a woman's right to choose
an affordable education
healthcare
war
jobs

In general life and death, politics IS the end-all be all of existence, just look at the homeless shelters, or how many people have been killed IN OUR NAME due to politics

[leyton]

32. I agree wholeheartedly.

I think the people who criticize Carville for it have never married a freeper.

Besides, don't think of it as Carville sleeping with the enemy. Think of it as Matalin sleeping with the good guys.

[leesa]

39. Sorry. Not when BushCo is trying to overthrow the planet...don't think

love's all that important in this case. This ISN'T just politics!

[liberalhistorian]

44. And just who the hell are you or anyone

else to decide for someone what is and isn't important in their relationship and who they should and shouldn't marry? What business is it of yours? Do you people have ANY idea how much this thread sounds like something Freak Republic would post?

If anyone is bothered by that, then you either don't have enough of a life or you're far more of a freeper than you think. Because deciding for people who they should and shouldn't marry and sticking their noses into people's private lives and decisions where they don't belong are what freepers do. We criticize them all the time for that and rightfully so, so what the hell is the difference here? Believe it or not, folks, there's more to people than political beliefs and I've known many interpolitical couples who've made it work, many of them for a long time. And they're really, truly in love.

I'm totally disgusted that anyone here thinks they have the right to decide people's private lives for them and to stick their noses into the marital lives of others. You don't know the personal lives of these people or what goes on in their marriage and it's none of your damn business. From what I've seen, they appear to truly be in love and that's all that matters. It ain't no one else's business. Everyone here criticizes the pukes for judging people based on their political beliefs and affiliation. But it appears that you're doing the same thing here. And that's just as wrong as when the pukes do it.

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. No, I have lots more important things

to worry about.

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[tuvor]

10. My nose doesn't belong there. n/t

[autorank]

12. Only if they breed.

I realize that this is totally insensitive and of questionable taste. I'm inclined to apologize in advance but, at the same time, so what...do we always have to be politically correct around here. I think not.
Can you imagine allowing Pumpkin Head to breed? Look what happened when "Big Russ" and "Mrs. Big Russ" threw caution to the wind.

[still_one]

14. because carville is constantly asking me for money on behalf of the DNC

and I have serious doubts that he takes this seriously

[Mend]

13. Sometimes it makes me think it is just jobs for them...eom

[rpannier]

17. Not really

I know many people who are married that share very different political points of view. If you're building your relationship totally on politics than you're making a BIG mistake. There's more to a person than their politics.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

19. Republican and DLC toads mating in a Golden Double-wide.

The have love of themselves in common.

[Vadem]

22. Yes! I'm bothered by the fact that each of them are so partisan:

and on TV constantly, each spouting their political slant. Yes, they have two daughters; very cute; G_d knows how screwed up they will be when they grow up!

James Carville has been getting on my liberal nerves, lately, also.

[Spider Jerusalem]

23. Bothered? Not in the least.

If they're happy, who cares? Not my business.

And your question seems to be of the same form as "how could a Catholic marry an atheist?" or "how could a Christian marry a Jew?"

[caledesi]

24. Agree. I don't understand it..but it seems to be working. nt

[Pushed To The Left]

28. Exactly

That's one of the things I think about when this topic comes up.

[mcscajun]

33. Couldn't have said it any better.

Doesn't bother them -- shouldn't bother me. Doesn't.

[BeatleBoot]

25. LOVE is better than Hate

The GOP thrives on hate.

I think they love each other and I know that love is better than hate.

So, why should it bother me?

[Southsideirish]

26. I like her better than him and I loathe her.

[Pushed To The Left]

27. There is nothing wrong with it at all.

Some DUers, myself included, are in relationships with people who don't share the same political views. Anybody who knows me knows that I'm a hardcore Democrat, and I think most people who post on DU are on the progressive side of politics as well, regardless of who they are in relationships with. If anybody should be worried about DUer-Republican relationships, it's the Republican Party! :evilgrin:

[The Backlash Cometh]

29. Yes.

[orpupilofnature57]

30. K street explained it all, too bad America's not in to real drama.

[JI7]

31. doesn't bother me

[BiggJawn]

36. It's their Schtick.

"Is this just entertainment for them? An oddity to enrich their pocketbooks?"

Yep, they laugh at your puzzlemeant all the way to the bank.

I can just hear Carville saying at home "Ain't that something? this ol' Coon-ass boy done pulled the shit on those college-boy Liberals AGIN! ALL the way th th' bank!"

[Just Me]

37. I think that anyone "bothered" by such things is such plain STUPID.

That's what I think.

Moreover, only total assholes would make such things as issue,...in my humble opinion.

As a matter of fact,...the right-wing character assination machine would target people,...at EVERY FREAKIN OPPORTUNITY,...just to cause disruption and RULE THE CONVERSATION.

PUKE!!!

HOW EEEEEASILY WE ARE MANIPULATED BY ASSHOLES. :puke:

[kcass1954]

38. Nope, not at all.

Just makes me thankful that I'm not married to either!

[Illinois_Dem]

41. This is #113 on my list of things to worry about, when I get the time.

It doesn't bother me in the least.

[Catherine Vincent]

42. No. Everybody needs love.

[checks-n-balances]

45. Bothered? No...

Amazed that they even got together in the first place, let alone getting and staying married? Yes!

[ronzo]

46. Hell no.

Why would I be?