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Report: George H.W. Bush to Vote for Hillary Clinton
Breitbart News ^ | Sep 20th, 2016 | Brietbart News

Posted on 09/20/2016 4:24:49 AM PDT by Bubba Gump Shrimp

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!!”

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bush; bushforhillary; clinton; headlies
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To: Bubba Gump Shrimp

The Bush brand will never recover. Their legacy went down the drain. George P. Bush will be the hardest hit. He should get a new name.


21 posted on 09/20/2016 4:39:02 AM PDT by Helicondelta (Deplorable)
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To: JayGalt
I know longer have any respect for them (the Bush Dynasty)

Nor do I. They don't care about us little folk. They're working for the world as it would be if Trump isn't victorious. As with the EU, it's a world where voting doesn't matter, and the globalists control the agenda.

This election is our last chance to stop it.

22 posted on 09/20/2016 4:39:07 AM PDT by grania (I'm Deplorable)
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To: Bubba Gump Shrimp
Dementia? Revenge for Jeb?

No more Clintons. No more Bush

23 posted on 09/20/2016 4:39:28 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: Bubba Gump Shrimp

"Vote your conscience, Poppy! Vote your conscience!"


24 posted on 09/20/2016 4:41:16 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Hillary's screeching voice is like the pipe organs of hell)
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To: Bubba Gump Shrimp
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."

If this came from a Kennedy, smart money is that she's drunk, on drugs, or hallucinating.

25 posted on 09/20/2016 4:42:20 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Every nation has the government it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Bubba Gump Shrimp

I say let the RINO’s expose themselves, not like we were unaware who they were anyway, but confirmation is always a good thing.


26 posted on 09/20/2016 4:42:31 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: grania

The Bushes never did care; they are far more interested in their position with the global elites and being “respected” (i.e., in reality looked on as clowns) by the Dems. Their son lost the primaries, had almost no support, pledges to support the nominee (thinking it will be him) and then reneges on his pledge. What kind of people are the Bushes? I never respected any of them and I see I was absolutely right.


27 posted on 09/20/2016 4:42:39 AM PDT by laconic
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To: Bubba Gump Shrimp

Figures...


28 posted on 09/20/2016 4:43:03 AM PDT by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: Bubba Gump Shrimp

The patriarch of the fascist wing of the Republican party will vote for the matriarch of the fascist wing of the Democrat party. Who could have imagined?


29 posted on 09/20/2016 4:43:37 AM PDT by InABunkerUnderSF (Proudly deplorable since 2016.)
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To: Bubba Gump Shrimp

Another sad case of out- Iiving one’s mental abilities. That is why Democrats harvest votes from nursing homes, where the voters think they are voting for JFK’s second term.


30 posted on 09/20/2016 4:44:41 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Bubba Gump Shrimp

She is, after all, his daughter-in-law.


31 posted on 09/20/2016 4:46:26 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Bubba Gump Shrimp

This poop bag H.W. always did want to go to bed with Hillary. It isn’t our fault that his wife is ugly, but this old fart is sick. First off, he is going to get a disease from Hillary even if he poked her, which is in his own perverted fantasy mind, Hillary doesn’t go to bed with Bill because Billybob has HIV. That doesn’t mean she would be interested in H.W., that old freak.

H.W., stop playing with yourself you weirdo.


32 posted on 09/20/2016 4:46:45 AM PDT by ShivaFan
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To: Bubba Gump Shrimp

Gee....what a surprise! (Not)


33 posted on 09/20/2016 4:48:23 AM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: TTFlyer

“Bush-PeRino wing of the Republican Party”

Well, they’re voting for the wife of the one with Peyronie’s Disease (very close to PeRino).


34 posted on 09/20/2016 4:50:22 AM PDT by jurroppi1 (The only thing you "pass to see what's in it" is a stool sample. h/t MrB)
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To: Bubba Gump Shrimp
Here is a post which I wrote several years ago and for which I drew considerable flak at the time. I doubt I will receive much flak for the same post today I think it stands the test of time:

The problem with George Bush is that he is not primarily a conservative, he is primarily a Christian, and he does not have a calculus that is congruent with yours or mine, even though both of us might be Christians. George Bush sees partisan politics as petty and ultimately meaningless. We see partisanship as the indispensable stuff of freedom. At election time the Bushes will hold their nose and dip into partisanship. But it is not in their essential nature to wage war for tactical political advantage.

George Bush wants what Bill Clinton wanted: To fashion a legacy. He does not want to be remembered as the man who cut a few percentage points from an appropriation bill but as the man who reshaped Social Security. I've come to the conclusion that the Bushes see politics as smarmy, fetid. It must be indulged in if one is to practice statesmanship but it is statesmanship alone that that is worthy as a calling.

They are honest, they are loyal, they are patrician. There would've been admired and respected if had lived among the founding fathers. But it is Laura Bush and Momma Bush who really and truly speak for the family and who tell us what they are thinking and who they are. There's not a Bush woman who does not believe in abortion. They believe in family, they live in loyalty, they believe in the tribe, but they do not believe in partisan politics.

I believe it is time for us to decide no longer to be used by the Bush family as useful idiots and instead to begin to use the Bushes as our useful idiots . I say this with the utmost admiration and respect for everything the Bushes stand for. Who would not be proud beyond description to have a father or an uncle who was among the first and youngest of naval aviators to fight in the Pacific and to be twice shot down. Not a stain or blemish of corruption or personal peccadillo has touched the family(except for the brother whom I believe was cleared of bank charges). They are the living embodiment of all that is good and noble in the American tradition.

But they are not conservative.


35 posted on 09/20/2016 4:50:40 AM PDT by nathanbedford
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To: Bubba Gump Shrimp

Predictable.

Jeb told one of his supporters: I respect that woman and I have only a few fundamental disagreements with her.

The Bushes and Clintons are two sides of the same royal dynasty running the country.


36 posted on 09/20/2016 4:51:07 AM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: Bubba Gump Shrimp

Thanks to Trump, these posers have been flushed out. Never again, will we be forced to vote for a “Bush”. I couldn’t imagine what Jeb would be like as a president. Funny that Clinton viciously attacked and politically destroyed him in 1992 and now their all buddies.


37 posted on 09/20/2016 4:51:56 AM PDT by stratboy
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To: Bubba Gump Shrimp

They need to get used to the idea that their opinion just doesn’t count for much anymore.


38 posted on 09/20/2016 4:53:10 AM PDT by Excellence (Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
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To: Bubba Gump Shrimp
What HW Bush most dislikes about Trump is the vicious, political career ending, beating he gave to Jeb. That is understandable in a father, but shows how rotten and tight the establishment is. Nobody is more establishment than George H.W. Bush.
39 posted on 09/20/2016 4:53:20 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Bubba Gump Shrimp

It just proves that there really is only a theoretical difference between Republicans and Democrats.


40 posted on 09/20/2016 4:53:53 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (Nuke Saudi Arabia now)
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