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Understanding Karl Roves’ “Operation Hummingbird”…
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Posted on 09/22/2015 6:36:56 PM PDT by TigerClaws

“Operation Hummingbird” an identifier given (by me) to describe a very strategic approach of Karl Rove in getting Jeb Bush the republican nomination. “Hummingbird” describes a very a specific strategy to overcome a hurdle currently blocking Rove’s path, Donald Trump. Often it is easier to use a descriptive term, rather than spend 300 words having to re-explain a strategy as it expands and becomes increasingly visible over time.

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1 posted on 09/22/2015 6:36:56 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws
And then there's this, from Drudge

Militia organizer threatens to arrest lawmakers over Iran deal

In the end, Rove might not matter.

Pop some popcorn...

2 posted on 09/22/2015 6:43:19 PM PDT by IncPen (Not one single patriot in Washington, DC.)
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To: TigerClaws

Interesting choice of a name.

The original “Operation Hummingbird” is more informally known as the “Night of the Long Knives”.


3 posted on 09/22/2015 6:48:11 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: TigerClaws

Bttt


4 posted on 09/22/2015 6:53:53 PM PDT by Guenevere (If thean foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do....)
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To: TigerClaws

The "Muslim Questioner" who nobody knows.

5 posted on 09/22/2015 6:55:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: TigerClaws

promoting Jeb is like pushing a wet noodle uphill. To quote Jeb’s daddy - “nah gonnah happen. nah gonnah”


6 posted on 09/22/2015 6:55:59 PM PDT by llevrok (To liberals, Treason Is the New Patriotism)
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To: DuncanWaring

You are right about the name being interesting. Watch a hummingbird. Tiny creatures long beaks. They dart in quick and out quick. In quick and out quick. FiaRINO and RINOrubio et. al., small numbers of supporters but they will attack Trump quickly and back away quickly. Numerous little jabs and if they need help, I’m certain other GOPe controlled subordinates will join in. Like a lot of little hummingbirds trying to make their marks all over Trump. Just like that Alfred Hitchcock movie, The Birds.


7 posted on 09/22/2015 7:00:49 PM PDT by Waryone
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To: TigerClaws

If Hillary is in trouble (which it certainly appears she is) then Bush is toast.

With virtually no grass roots support, his only path to the nomination was crossover Dems looking to install the softest target for November.

Now Dems will probably be told to vote in their own primaries next spring, either to save Hillary or defeat her in favor of Team Chicago.


8 posted on 09/22/2015 7:00:58 PM PDT by nascarnation (C. Edmund Wright says I'm a moron)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“We’ve hit Barack bottom”

Well, somebody’s been “hittin” it.


9 posted on 09/22/2015 7:01:28 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republican Freed the Slaves" month.)
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10 posted on 09/22/2015 7:02:17 PM PDT by Stand Watch Listen (When the going gets tough--the Low Information President Obie from Nairobi goes golfing/fundraising)
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To: TigerClaws
Hmmmm...some historical perspective...

Night of the Long Knives (OPERATION HUMMINGBIRD)

The Night of the Long Knives (German: About this sound Nacht der langen Messer (help·info)), sometimes called Operation Hummingbird or, in Germany, the Röhm Putsch (German spelling: Röhm-Putsch), or sometimes mockingly Reichsmordwoche,[1] was a purge that took place in Nazi Germany from June 30 to July 2, 1934, when the Nazi regime carried out a series of political murders. Leading figures of the left-wing Strasserist faction of the Nazi Party, along with its figurehead, Gregor Strasser, were murdered, as were prominent conservative anti-Nazis (such as former Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher and Gustav Ritter von Kahr, who had suppressed Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch in 1923). Many of those killed were leaders of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the paramilitary Brownshirts.

Before its execution, its planners sometimes referred to it as Hummingbird (German: Kolibri), the codeword used to send the execution squads into action on the day of the purge.[3] The codename for the operation appears to have been chosen arbitrarily. The phrase "Night of the Long Knives" in the German language predates the massacre itself and refers generally to acts of vengeance. Germans still use the term Röhm-Putsch to describe the murders, the term given to it by the Nazi regime, despite its unproven implication that the murders were necessary to prevent a coup. German authors often use quotation marks or write about the sogenannter Röhm-Putsch ("so-called Röhm Putsch") to emphasise this.[4]


11 posted on 09/22/2015 7:10:10 PM PDT by Stand Watch Listen (When the going gets tough--the Low Information President Obie from Nairobi goes golfing/fundraising)
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To: Waryone

Or, death by a thousand cuts!


12 posted on 09/22/2015 7:15:38 PM PDT by Stand Watch Listen (When the going gets tough--the Low Information President Obie from Nairobi goes golfing/fundraising)
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To: Stand Watch Listen

Before its execution, its planners sometimes referred to it as Hummingbird (German: Kolibri), the codeword used to send the execution squads into action on the day of the purge.

The codename for the operation appears to have been chosen arbitrarily.


Maybe not.. I got a Colibri lighter when I was a teen, very elegant, slim and tech for the early 80s.. maybe ‘light’em up’ was what the code-word meant.


13 posted on 09/22/2015 7:20:51 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: TigerClaws

Rove is highly overrated—especially by himself.

Let me make a prediction.

JEB will not be the nominee.


14 posted on 09/22/2015 7:27:16 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (As we say in the Air Force, "You know you're over the target when you start getting flak!")
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To: TigerClaws

Why is it always eight?

Does the number 8 hold any occult significance?


15 posted on 09/22/2015 7:32:21 PM PDT by Califreak (Hope and Che'nge is killing U.S. Feel the Trump-mentum!(insert ireally.supportCruzdisclaimerhere/))
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To: TigerClaws

This assumes that Carly or Rubio can take anyone down. They can’t.


16 posted on 09/22/2015 7:34:16 PM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: DuncanWaring

That’s creepy.


17 posted on 09/22/2015 7:35:18 PM PDT by Califreak (Hope and Che'nge is killing U.S. Feel the Trump-mentum!(insert ireally.supportCruzdisclaimerhere/))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Same guy’s photo is in this thread. The poster from here says he’s “from Norway” and is U.S. citizen.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2338733/posts?page=221


18 posted on 09/22/2015 7:54:37 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: IncPen

Did you read the article at the link? It reeks of a false flag operation.


19 posted on 09/22/2015 7:59:08 PM PDT by Chaguito
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To: TigerClaws

The biggest hurdle in Rove’s way is Jeb.


20 posted on 09/22/2015 8:00:40 PM PDT by c-b 1 (Reporting from behind enemy lines, in occupied AZTLAN.)
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