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.
The veracity of this story is in question.
http://hotair.com/archives/2016/09/20/bad-check-george-h-w-bush-voting-hillary/
Witness GW never opening his mouth against Obama, while Carter is a partisan loudmouth. Ruling class scum.
So they will vote for a sexual predator enabling ,corrupt liar like Hillary
Stories like this convince me that more than anything else the Bush family, not the Democrats, has ruined the GOP.
Nancy Reagan thought the elder Bush bastard was involved with the attempted murder of her husband in March, 1981.
That little morsel of news came out after Mrs. Reagan’s passing.
I voted for crazy Ross in 92. Sad part is that demented old fool probably thinks Perot is running this year too
Senility and/or dementia eventually takes its toll I reckon.
It’s easy to believe the Mena airport connection between the Bushes and the Clintons from the 80’s. Nothing was ever proven, but it does explain the connection between the two families from ecades ago.
It was Bush Jr. that rehabilitated Clinton’s soiled reputation by having him go around with Bush’s father on a humanitarian mission after the Tsunami hit.
POS one-worlder.
This election isn’t democrat vs. Republican. It is globalist vs. nationalist. Of course the Bushes would vote for globalism.
“I actually think this helps Donald Trump.”
So do I. We’re getting too relaxed and complacent about him winning. It isn’t over, and fight the most depraved people on earth, capable of anything.
That said, even if they should thwart Trump, the Great Divorce has begun. It is a movement, and movements are not predicated on individuals.
The catalyst is in the mix. The globalists can be displaced peaceably or otherwise, but they are going to be ejected from power, and hopefully, history.
WTH has one thing got to do with the other? Are you pissed because you only got a few comments on your post about Welch?
HILLARY'S BUSH!
He’s voting for the CIA favored candidate.
decades ago = ecades ago
Truth hurts Jebbie and daddy gonna make bad man sorry!
Just read his lips.
This is a good thing, his stupid vote won’t matter, but it will ensure there will never be another Bush in the White House for a thousand years ...
“Should Trump win, we will have the first America first President since January 19, 1989.”
GHW Bush was inaugurated that day in 1989.....you must be referring to Inauguration Day 1981! ;)
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