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.
At least Quayle supports Trump.
one-world loser family
Turns out, Quayle was the solid guy on that ticket.
IMO, it figures based on what I’ve come to know about the Bushs over the last few years and about how utterly wrong I was.
BUT! I don’t think that this hurts Trump at all, really. If anything, what H.W. has done is caused more trouble for down-ticket Republicans that are of “his ilk.”
I am truly delighted with this news. Any doubts that the old ‘read-my-lips’ fraud was ever anything other than a globalist, transnational water carrier, just another nut from the Bohemian Grove, are
GONE!
I’m so glad that he has lived long enough to see the beginning of his life’s work and treacheries begin to unravel.
Should Trump win, we will have the first America first President since January 19, 1989.
They’ll be going to hell together very soon.
Jack Welch endorsed Trump but I guess this crap about GHWB will be posted hundreds of times. I thought he had died last year.
His library is here in College Station...I’ll not go out there again, nor encourage anyone else to go.
The political elite from the Uniparty.
These people have no conception what the average working American is up against and they don’t care.
It also says a lot about them backing a known criminal murderer with a disgusting pig as a husband.
Confirmation that he is, and was, a fraud.
Possibly leads credence to his possible involvement with the JFK assassination.
Ever since the Bushes began their reign, notice how terrorism and globalism drastically increased...
Face it folks, western civilization is being destroyed by the leaders of our countries.
figures.
he couldn’t extend back to conservative the grace that was given to him by Reagan.
Revenge for Jeb! Pathetic.
Go, Trump, GO!
Ah the UNIPARTY comes out in the open. I just wish I had known who he really was before I voted for him twice. But now we have Donald Trump to re make an re brand the GOP into what they should be the peoples party and the party of Main Street not Wall Street vested interests!
Word has it that Rove insisted on GHWB be Reagan’s Veep so as to backstop the Reagan Revolution (unbeknownst to RR).
Now we know why Karl was so adamant.
Are we sure? He’s lied before
I Completely Agree!
I actually think this helps Donald Trump.
Bushes are clearly identified as part of the GOP establishment Uniparty problem.
Go Trump!
RE: “IMO, it figures based on what I’ve come to know about the Bushs over the last few years and about how utterly wrong I was.
BUT! I don’t think that this hurts Trump at all, really. If anything, what H.W. has done is caused more trouble for down-ticket Republicans that are of “his ilk.”
His Spokesperson says GH Bush would not disclose who he is voting for in this Election
The Bush Family better worry about George P. Bush Political future.
He was among the Bush family that went from Prescott Bush guilty of trading with Hitler at Harriman and Brown
George H , No new Taxes lost the GOP Vote
G W destroyed the GOP Senate and House.
The Clinton’s helped cover up his cocaine operation in Mena Arkansas in the 80s. They have been partners for a long time. He owes them. And of course, they share a worldview anyway.
If it is reported that other Bushes do the same that will basically finish the Bush legacy. As it turns out, Trump has done more to destroy Bush than the Democratic party could ever do. About time, the jerk that told us to Read his Lips has been screwing conservatives for decades.
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