Word: matalin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Others remain intensely loyal. Deputy campaign manager Mary Matalin is everywhere, spinning, pontificating, attack faxing and fuming. Of those worried about life after Nov. 3, she says, "Resume writers are the lowest form of life. Once we win this election, I'd like to wipe all those people out of office...
...gravel-voiced, tough-talking street pol from Chicago who learned her trade under Lee Atwater, Matalin, 38, oversees the Bush campaign's links to 50 state operations while helping to hone its message machine. Carville, 47, is a Louisiana Cajun with a taste for the jugular. According to an article in Vogue, when Carville informed Matalin at a Washington dinner party that he was going to work for Clinton, she excused herself and promptly threw...
...aren't really the odd couple that they seem. Each is the closest thing either campaign has to someone with street smarts. Just as Matalin is politically more liberal than Bush, Carville is more conservative than Clinton. Both are up-by-the-bootstraps white ethnics whose rough-cut personalities don't always fit neatly in a business that has been dominated by slick schmoozers. Both love to cook and jog and escape to a mountain hideaway near Front Royal, Va., on weekends. Says Matalin: "We have plenty of things besides politics to argue about...
Being a woman in what are still male-dominated G.O.P. political circles, Matalin has suffered far more for the relationship than Carville has. Last year several top Republicans pressed Bush to dismiss her lest pillow talk undo his re-election. But the President stuck by Matalin and gave her a big hug after last week's tempest passed...
...knows what the pair said to each other in private, but Matalin's biggest fan in the Clinton camp sent her a large bouquet of flowers. Said Carville: "She'll be O.K. She's always...