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George H.W. Bush to vote for Hillary
POLITICO ^ | September 19, 2016 | Darren Samuelsohn

Posted on 09/19/2016 8:46:06 PM PDT by Trump20162020

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.

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 2016endorsements; bush; bush41; bushes; bushfamily; clinton; georgehwbush; hillaryclinton
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1 posted on 09/19/2016 8:46:06 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: Trump20162020

Senile Dementia.


2 posted on 09/19/2016 8:47:36 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: Trump20162020
Well that settles it, then ...

The Kennedy's wouldn't lie to us about the Bush's

3 posted on 09/19/2016 8:48:12 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but, they're true ... and it pisses people off)
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To: Trump20162020

Sour grapes. I wonder if he thinks this will make his Jebbie something other than what he is.


4 posted on 09/19/2016 8:48:35 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: Trump20162020

I’d like to see a quote from the man himself, but I can’t say I’m surprised. Trump beat the snot out of his kid.


5 posted on 09/19/2016 8:48:48 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Trump20162020

If true, it will prove what we’ve believed about him all along... he was here to destroy the GOP and Conservative movement from within.


6 posted on 09/19/2016 8:48:53 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

You beat me to it. I am now regretting less my vote for Perot in 1992...


7 posted on 09/19/2016 8:49:30 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Take it Easy, Chuck. I'm Not Taking it Back -- Donald Trump)
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To: Trump20162020

Given what the Dems have always said about George the Elder, shouldn’t Hillary denounce the endorsement?


8 posted on 09/19/2016 8:49:45 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: Trump20162020

NO doubt...the Clinton’s and Bushes are tight...they both exploited the government for all they could get.


9 posted on 09/19/2016 8:50:05 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: Trump20162020

Old dude goes weird. That’s never happened before.


10 posted on 09/19/2016 8:50:30 PM PDT by lurk (TEat)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
Dr. Bogus Pachysandra said: "Senile Dementia."

Worse than that it is a betrayal, at a minimum, of 80% of all Republicans.

Read my lips; No more Bushes.

11 posted on 09/19/2016 8:50:32 PM PDT by William Tell
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

No kidding. If this is left unanswered by the rest of the bushes, then they are done. Good riddance.


12 posted on 09/19/2016 8:50:43 PM PDT by be-baw (still seeking)
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To: Trump20162020
So this election boils down to one issue that divides us:

Globalize or Americanize

14 posted on 09/19/2016 8:51:05 PM PDT by cicero2k
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To: Trump20162020

I always knew he was a rat. If he dropped dead tomorrow I would be pissed because his “New Taxes” would help pay to bury his goat smellin’ ass!


15 posted on 09/19/2016 8:51:09 PM PDT by Randy Larsen (Trump, or no more republicans)
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To: Trump20162020

To many of us it doesn’t seem so very long ago, but caring that George Herbert Walker Bush is voting for Clinton in 2016 is kind of like caring who Adlai Stevenson was supporting in 1980.


16 posted on 09/19/2016 8:51:17 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: Trump20162020

Says it all. Think he really didn’t know Souter was a liberal when he appointed him?


18 posted on 09/19/2016 8:52:57 PM PDT by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat.)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

The proper term here is Consitancy.

People who actually paid any attention at all to the man’s foreign policy while he was in office expected this.

Those who lived in a dream world and never noticed how eerily McCain paralleled H.W. Bush oaren Islam aee the only ones who are even slightly surprised.


19 posted on 09/19/2016 8:53:01 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck?Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: knarf

Bush is like 92. Out of order to post something like that.


20 posted on 09/19/2016 8:53:35 PM PDT by lodi90 (Clear choice for Conservatives now: TRUMP or lose)
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