HoustonPress: George H.W. Bush's non-denial of Hillary support "speaks volumes."

[pnwmom]

http://www.houstonpress.com/news/george-hw-bush-will-vote-for-clinton-a-kennedy-says-8786394

Townsend, who is listed as Kathleen Hartington on Facebook, posted a photo of her and the former president on the social media site. The President told me he's voting for Hillary!!" the post stated, according to CNN.

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But now, instead of just staying out of it — which was already a strong indication of both H.W.'s dislike of Trump and how divided the Republican Party actually is — H.W. is putting the weight of his opinion behind Hillary. Thus, that Facebook post marked a huge, historically unprecedented development.

A former president hasn't openly backed the nominee from another party in decades. Sure, former President Theodore Roosevelt refused to back William Howard Taft, but that was because Roosevelt was running. And even with the most bitter party nomination fights, like the one that led to Barry Goldwater's Republican nod in 1964, former presidents have always ultimately backed the chosen candidate, as the Pew Research Center noted.

But that's not how things are playing out this time around.

Bush spokesman Jim McGrath said in a statement to the Houston Press, “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." However, McGrath didn't deny that H.W. is voting for Hillary, and that lack of denial, like what H.W. said to Townsend, speaks volumes.

[Hoyt]

1. Good. Daddy bush avoided supporting his idiot son on Iraq too.