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
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/exclusive-george-hw-bush-to-vote-for-hillary-228395
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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By Alex Isenstadt and Gabriel Debenedetti
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.
This is a reinforcement of the value of Trump.
Other news outlets are still reporting this:
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Yep getting lots of play but as best I can tell all from the same source in one form or another.
The story has been posted on FR several times in the since around 8:30 pm yesterday
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=bush
I agree, this Actually helps Trump!
Conservative citizens are sick of being betrayed by the GOP establishment.
That’s a damn lie. I’ve heard Rush speak about the Bushes and they were very nice and gracious to him. He accepted an invitation to the WH years ago, but he is NOT good friends with them!
And they cannot be happy with Rush over his avid support of Trump. Get your head out...
I would regard him more highly if he had done so. Now I regard his as a traitor to us and a traitor to his nation.
HW is now an enabler of the Clintons. You do not sink much lower than that.
Bushes did not carry on Reagan legacy,
Bushes did great harm to the GOP, globalists.
Her fainting and leaking of all that classified information must have got that ex-CIA head thinking; another 550,000 Islsmic radicals into the USA, what a great idea?
This family is out with the people for good IMO. Nasty people IMO.
The Bushes represent everything that has gone wrong with the Republican Party. If they actively supported Trump, I'd be suspicious of him.
Rush is NOT a professional.
My Take
Rush is supportive of Republicans, just because they are Republicans up to now at least for the Bushes, Rush has said good things about them.
It is true, Bush was talking glowingly about Dubya not long ago who is different than the father, maybe. I think Dubya could have done much more for Conservative values, I think he did a few good things but was very open borders.
“Should Trump win, we will have the first America first President since January 19, 1989.”
Excellent perspective.
I waited to post this until it was confirmed and reported by NY Daily, Independent UK, and Matt Drudge.
Thanks
All of the Globalist cards are now face up.
Let’s not kid ourselves...Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Madison, Franklin, Lincoln, and Reagan are voting for Hitlery too.
Trump can use this big time to his advantage. More proof of one elite political class against the American people. He’s the only one that’s an outsider and can change Washington.
Boom.
The ‘old school tie’ for Inside-the-Beltway Academy.
Bush was always a mediocrity, now he’s senile, and he proves it with this nonsense.
I really hope Trump cleans house in the CIA, FBI, IRS, DOJ, Pentagon, and all other agencies. These globalists have to go. They are traitors to America.
Drudge is linking Politico which was the first article posted yesterday evening.
48 days until the election and the dems will be out hopefully.
Take care and have a nice day.
Curse Drudge. The last thing I want to think about is Hillary’s bush.
“The FaceBook photo and claim has been removed.”
But I doubt the claim will be denied.
;-)
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