"We presume if there was anything else, we would know it by now, " Matalin said.

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"She takes that target off her back with a good record to launch from, " Matalin said.

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"He's not going to hold it against whoever said whatever about him, " Matalin said.

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"This is where you separated the men from the boys, " said Matalin, who is married to Carville.

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"Halliburton itself has lost close to three dozen workers over there in Iraq, " Matalin told NBC's Today show.

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Carville, a longtime Democratic strategist, and Matalin, a Republican pundit, are the co-chairs of the Super Bowl host committee.

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Matalin, a new member of the Best Political Team on Television, will appear with her husband only on State of the Union.

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The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Mary Matalin.

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Matalin also raised an operational challenge for second-term presidents: high turnover in senior positions, from the White House staff to key Cabinet positions.

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You have Mary Matalin, one of the best-known Republican strategists, advising him and so it's taken on a life of its own very quickly.

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However, CNN Republican strategist Mary Matalin said she thought the move was "really brilliant" on Palin's part, though she admitted she was surprised when she heard the news.

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Now, Matalin says, Palin must focus on "putting up with the conventional wisdom" that this was a bad move and travel the country to drum up support for a presidential run.

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When asked whether it's possible Palin stepped down because of negative news that has not emerged, Matalin referenced Palin's own words that investigators have dug through research in the ethics investigation.

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Long working on opposite sides of the American political spectrum, James Carville and Mary Matalin are pulling in the same direction when it comes to promoting their adopted home of New Orleans as a Super Bowl host.

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Matalin says one obvious goal is to get New Orleans back in the regular rotation as a Super Bowl host, but the larger goal is to help the city's future by demonstrating how successfully it can host one of the biggest single events in the sports world.

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