Former Bush Treasury secretary: 'I'll be voting for Hillary Clinton'

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http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/henry-paulson-hillary-clinton-voting-224793


Former Bush Treasury secretary: 'I'll be voting for Hillary Clinton'

By Nolan D. McCaskill

06/24/16 06:07 PM EDT


There goes another one.

Hank Paulson, chairman of the Paulson Institute and a former Treasury secretary in George W. Bush’s administration, will neither vote for Donald Trump in November nor abstain, he wrote in an op-ed published Friday in The Washington Post.

“I’ll be voting for Hillary Clinton with the hope that she can bring Americans together to do the things necessary to strengthen our economy, our environment and our place in the world,” Paulson wrote. “To my Republican friends: I know I’m not alone.”

Paulson is the latest George W. Bush administration official to not only reject the Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee, but to declare support for Clinton. Former Bush Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage told POLITICO last week he would vote for Clinton.

With Trump as the party’s standard-bearer, “we are witnessing a populist hijacking of one of the United States’ great political parties,” the former Goldman Sachs CEO wrote. “The GOP, in putting Trump at the top of the ticket, is endorsing a brand of populism rooted in ignorance, prejudice, fear and isolationism. This troubles me deeply as a Republican, but it troubles me even more as an American. Enough is enough. It’s time to put country before party and say it together: Never Trump.”
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[Mesaclone]

The Dance of the RINO's goes on.

Christine Whitman, Scowcroft, Paulson...what Nor'eastern liberal RINO could be next.

Don't they get that Trump is really just as liberal as Hillary?

[Chieftain]

Paulson is no conservative, and I would not be surprised to see him connected to the Clinton Crime Family in some way.

He's probably salivating at the chance of another shot at the US Treasury.  He's certainly no fan of Trump.

 

[Oceander]

The Dance of the RINO's goes on.

Christine Whitman, Scowcroft, Paulson...what Nor'eastern liberal RINO could be next.

Don't they get that Trump is really just as liberal as Hillary?

Apparently they don't.  More likely though they're disgusted with his xenophobia, racist hatred, and bald-faced demagoguery.

[Mesaclone]

Apparently they don't.  More likely though they're disgusted with his xenophobia, racist hatred, and bald-faced demagoguery.

Like yourself, they have clearly bought into the liberal talking points. Your use of them defines you...not as an independent thinker, but as just another drone chanting in the liberal echo chamber.

[truth_seeker]

He is a globalist crony capitalidst elitist, so not surprising he would join fellow phony conservative  #nevertrump Hillary backers.

[Oceander]

He is a globalist crony capitalidst elitist, so not surprising he would join fellow phony conservative  #nevertrump Hillary backers.

You just keep consoling yourself with that lie, t_s.  Perhaps we should start a petition to have your handle revised to more accurately reflect your posts:  lie_seeker.

[truth_seeker]

You just keep consoling yourself with that lie, t_s.  Perhaps we should start a petition to have your handle revised to more accurately reflect your posts:  lie_seeker.

Noting that you lack the professionalism, maturity, to simply follow the rules here, about making personal attacks.

[jmyrlefuller]

Noting that you lack the professionalism, maturity, to simply follow the rules here, about making personal attacks.

So lying about others is good for you, but when others call you out on it it's a personal attack. Right.

[truth_seeker]

So lying about others is good for you, but when others call you out on it it's a personal attack. Right.

I don't call anybody liars, leaving that to folks not able to make superior arguments. Are you two giving me the NY double team, of your youthful childish insults, with zero substance?

Any comments on Hank Paulson, by the way? His record sucks. Read it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Paulson

[HonestJohn]

He is a globalist crony capitalidst elitist, so not surprising he would join fellow phony conservative  #nevertrump Hillary backers.

All you're missing is:

Just another 1%'er.  #OCCUPY WALLSTREET

[RetBobbyMI]

Just goes to show that the GOP lacks a definitive identity other than the party of McConnell and Trump. No longer the party of Lincoln.

[Suppressed]

He is a globalist crony capitalidst elitist, so not surprising he would join fellow phony conservative  #nevertrump Hillary backers.

@truth_seeker

Joined us real-conservatives, too, of course, in becoming #NeverTrump.

[Mechanicos]

@truth_seeker

Joined us real-conservatives, too, of course, in becoming #NeverTrump.

You do realize you just called #NeverTrump "globalist crony capitalist elitist.... "

But then with such #neverTrump leaders as Romney, Ryan, Bush,  Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google co-founder and Alphabet CEO Larry Page and billionaire Facebook investor Sean Parker et. al., it makes sense...

 

[hiram1950]

Didn't Paulson get to pick winners and losers in the big meltdown, then take a 7 figure job with one of the winners?

If there was ever a DC corruption icon, this guy belongs in the Pantheon of the Corrupt. Paulson and clinton are charter members of the same club and probably bowl together on the same Thursday Night League team.

[Right_in_Virginia]

The Dance of the RINO's goes on.

Actually, I think this is the dance of the Bush Cartel.

[truth_seeker]

Didn't Paulson get to pick winners and losers in the big meltdown, then take a 7 figure job with one of the winners?

If there was ever a DC corruption icon, this guy belongs in the Pantheon of the Corrupt. Paulson and clinton are charter members of the same club and probably bowl together on the same Thursday Night League team.

Exactly, but don't share that with Hillary's #nevertrump cheerleaders, here

More like 8 figures, however. He epitomizes the Clinton-Bush high finance status quo beneficiaries, manipulators and facilitators.

[austingirl]

Hank Paulson is the scum that walked into W's office and walked out with the bailout of WS. He is a corrupt crony capitalist so it is no surprise he will vote for the corrupt Clinton.