Posted on 09/20/2016 5:57:13 AM PDT by MarchonDC09122009
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George H.W. Bush to vote for Hillary - POLITICO
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George H.W. Bush to vote for Hillary
A Kennedy outs a Bush who favors a Clinton.
By Darren Samuelsohn
09/19/16 11:20 PM EDT
Updated 09/19/16 11:36 PM EDT
Former President George H.W. Bush is bucking his party's presidential nominee and plans to vote for Hillary Clinton in November, according to a member of another famous political family, the Kennedys.
Bush, 92, had intended to stay silent on the White House race between Clinton and Donald Trump, a sign in and of itself of his distaste for the GOP nominee. But his preference for the wife of his own successor, President Bill Clinton, nonetheless became known to a wider audience thanks to Kathleen Hartington Kennedy Townsend, the former Maryland lieutenant governor and daughter of the late Robert F. Kennedy.
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On Monday, Townsend posted a picture on her Facebook page shaking hands next to the former president and this caption: "The President told me he’s voting for Hillary!!”
In a telephone interview, Townsend said she met with the former president in Maine earlier today, where she said he made his preference known that he was voting for a Democrat. “That’s what he said,” she told POLITICO. BushHillaryPic.jpg
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Asked about Townsend’s post, George H.W. Bush spokesman Jim McGrath in an email replied, "The vote President Bush will cast as a private citizen in some 50 days will be just that: a private vote cast in some 50 days. He is not commenting on the presidential race in the interim."
George H.W. Bush and former First Lady Barbara Bush have stayed out of the political debate since campaigning earlier this year for their son Jeb's unsuccessful bid for president. Neither George H.W. Bush nor his son, former President George W. Bush, attended this summer's Republican National Convention in Cleveland where Trump accepted the nomination. 09_hillary_clinton_17_gty_1160.jpg
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Many former GOP officials from both Bush administrations have also announced their support for Clinton over Trump, including national security adviser Brent Scowcroft and former Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez.
One Bush official who has taken Trump's side is former Vice President Dan Quayle, who told POLITICO in an interview this summer he was still holding out hope both Bushes would back Trump. "Clearly in their heart of hearts I should hope they would want a Republican president, but they can speak for themselves," Quayle said in an interview in July.
Other first for GHWB:
First US President to throw up on an ambassador’s lap at a state dinner!
He did tell the truth 25 years ago when he proclaimed he looking forward to bringing about a “New World Order”...
RE: “First globalist President!”
I meant when some guy asked Heidi Cruz if Ted was the Zodiac killer. Zodiac did his thing before Cruz was even born. It struck me as funny, kind of like the Rafael/LHO thing
Trump ended the Bush dynasty. Jeb! had lost his edge and was tired and going through the motions. It took him a week to answer an obvious question about whether Iraq was a mistake. He was so weak that even his son is probably finished. GHW Bush is not going to support the undertaker of the Bush dynasty. This is no surprise. The media will make a big about it, but it is not unexpected.
Yep, I voted for Buchanan in the 1988 primary, glad I did.
Has nothing to do with self confidence. Do you think Freepers are the only people posting? You sound rather ranty. Kind of like Hillary.
Though GWB and Mrs. Bill are smiling together, we can be sure that only GWB means it!
Pat ran in the 1992 and 1996 primaries: he was the best candidate ever but his weakness on Israel kept him from gaining the needed traction.
I think all of these Bushes are voting for Mrs. Bill but George P. claims otherwise.
Didn’t Richard M. Nixon fly out of Dallas on the morning of the assassination and learn of the killing from a cab driver in Manhattan? Nixon’s first thought supposedly was, “That could have been me,” had he won the 1960 election.
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