It's Official: Hillary is the BCE Candidate for 2016.

[FORD]

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


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.

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.

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.

[DONNIEP]

Ok, I give up - Ford is 100% right about the BCE, lol. Either that or the old man has completely lost his marbles.

[FORD]

Poppy knows he doesn't have much longer before he is permanently reassigned to be the CIA Station Chief in Hell. The BCE has picked every Republican president since 1952 and he wants to get in one more while he still can. He endorsed Mittens in 2012, but that was just a "placeholder" to keep anybody off the ticket who might actually win. Poppy was fine with Barry as President, and the feeling was obviously mutual......



America.... where you can be the son of Hitler's banker, can be a lifelong member of the secret police, be involved in the assassination of a President (and his brother), train & fund terrorists - most notably the ones allegedly responsible for 9/11, and be the biggest heroin & cocaine smuggler of the 20th century.... and still be awarded the goddamned Presidential Medal of Fucking Freedom????

[Seshmeister]

He should stand himself he can still do a second term.

America seems to want an elderly president and 92 is the new 85.

[trudy]

I think he is happier as private citizen than to run as president again.

[cadaverdog]

Poppy knows he doesn't have much longer before he is permanently reassigned to be the CIA Station Chief in Hell. The BCE has picked every Republican president since 1952 and he wants to get in one more while he still can. He endorsed Mittens in 2012, but that was just a "placeholder" to keep anybody off the ticket who might actually win. Poppy was fine with Barry as President, and the feeling was obviously mutual......



America.... where you can be the son of Hitler's banker, can be a lifelong member of the secret police, be involved in the assassination of a President (and his brother), train & fund terrorists - most notably the ones allegedly responsible for 9/11, and be the biggest heroin & cocaine smuggler of the 20th century.... and still be awarded the goddamned Presidential Medal of Fucking Freedom????

Because all of those allegations are bullshit?

[cadaverdog]

Ok, I give up - Ford is 100% right about the BCE, lol. Either that or the old man has completely lost his marbles.

As legendary lawman Barny Fife would say, I think he's a nut.

[FORD]