Understanding Karl Rove’s “Operation Hummingbird”…

“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.

Candidate Jeb Bush attends Chamber of Commerce dinner with Fox’s Rupert Murdoch and Valerie Jarrett (December 2014)

Australian billionaire Rupert Murdoch wants the Trans-Pacific Trade Deal approved. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is constructing the trade deal. TPTA controls 40% of global manufacturing. Murdoch is Mr. Wall Street. Murdoch is supporting Bush to get his deal.

◾Maintain Obamacare without repeal or adjustment.
◾Promotion of federal Common Core education standards.
◾Comprehensive immigration reform to include amnesty.
◾Trans-Pacific Trade Deal Approval.

Both Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush support these legislative priorities. They, along with Mitch McConnell et al, have been lobbied (campaigns paid) to support them. Failure is not an option. The game has been rigged. Wall Street will not be denied. Period.

The ultimate RNC/GOPe goal is to get Jeb Bush on one side of the primary equation, and then see the DNC get Hillary Clinton on the other side. Together they represent a Win/Win for Wall Street regardless of general election outcome.

This is the goal; this is the only goal; this goal will never be abandoned. They will never stop working to deliver this goal. Trillions are at stake. Jeb Bush is the only acceptable RNC/GOPe candidate; that’s why Jeb doesn’t even have to work hard – the outcome is pre-ordained, decided, done. Jeb Bush will never be abandoned. Period.

There are professional GOPe participants in this race to help deliver the Jeb outcome.

The GOPe participants are: Carly Fiorina, Marco Rubio, Mike Huckabee, Chris Christie, John Kasich, Lindsey Graham, George Pataki and Jim Gilmore. 8 Party insiders; 8 party loyalists; 8 party members working to support Jeb Bush.

The problem Karl Rove, the RNC/GOPe, Wall Street and the U.S. Chamber of commerce are having to deal with is Donald Trump. They have thrown everything at him in trying to take him down. So far, Trump has withstood all their attacks.

That’s why a few weeks before the CNN debate (Reagan) Library Karl Rove developed an alternate political strategy which can work simultaneously with, and parallel to, direct attacks. The alternate strategy was/is “operation hummingbird“.

Op-Hummingbird was executed exactly as it was predicted in the days leading up to the CNN debate. The Rovian GOPe strategy was quite successful as executed. In the next phase, Fox News becomes a big part of Op-Hummingbird because the target audience is Republican Primary Voters.

The ‘Op-Hummingbird’ goal is to promote Carly Fiorina and Marco Rubio, and get them on either side of Donald Trump. Once that positioning is achieved they will use their very specific political skill-sets to take Trump down with the full assistance from a U.S media which thrives on the tearing down part. Isolate – Ridicule – Marginalize.

Op-Hummingbird began successfully on the night of the CNN debate. The successful results were immediately broadcast. For the past week all RNC/GOPe energy has been expended to push the Fiorina/Rubio narrative and support the ‘Hummingbird’ objective.

This FOX segment with John Roberts aired twice on Friday night, 3 times on Saturday, and 5 times during Sunday broadcast – including on Fox News Sunday (3 broadcasts). The segment re-aired 4 times on Monday, and at least twice today.

After replaying the Fiorina segment yet again, the next segment to promote is Marco Rubio. Again, Watch:

Fox is so stupid, Jeb isn’t liked, Carly is a failed CEO and loves Hillary video makes her a Joke if she ever ran against Hillary.

I think Ailes and Murdoch know that Trump's support is the base of their support...they just don't care. They believe that once Trump is out of the race all will be forgotten and forgiven and the 'folks' will come back to them in droves because for most of us, there is no alternative for news and opinion. I've left FOX and won't be back. I don't need the TV to get my news and I've found that I'm much calmer and happier when I'm not watching.

I've found lot's of old TV shows on Netflix and I'm having a blast watching some of them. Just started watching the Rockford Files again, I forgot how much I liked that show.

Yes Rove's vaunted brilliance is pure illusion.

Speaking of the 2000 election, his incompetence was demonstrated repeatedly in achieving that "skin of the teeth margin," to which you refer.

I have been an observer of what works in politics all of my life, as well as a student of what worked in politics before I was born. Rove not only bungled useful issue recognition during the campaign, he missed the chance of a political lifetime on election eve, by not having Bush on TV to take advantage of the last minute media smear, over the DUI Bush got in his early 20s.

Any half-witted politician should have seen the possibilities. The media drags in a red herring, the weekend before the election. Rove had he been even semi-competent would have seized the fact that millions of ordinary Democratic voters, would want to see how Bush responds--that guarantees a huge audience of people not planning to vote for the candidate--the ideal audience for picking up more votes at the direct expense of the opponent--text book politics.

Bush was no great speaker, but that could have been worked around. Here is the scenario:

Bush takes 20 to 30 seconds to explain that he--unlike the perfect Mr. Gore (with a mixture of sincerity and mild sarcasm) made mistakes in his youth. Then he speaks for 28 and a half minutes on his vision for America, now that he has grown up.

The moment is potentially even more effective than Nixon's "Little Dog Checkers," speech, which saved Nixon's career in the 1952 election; more effective than Harry Truman's election eve address in 1948.

Rove didn't have Bush on TV at all, election eve--certainly not promoted if he did, because I was certainly looking for the obvious.

Rove simply does not see issues in the true context--an absolutely fatal deficiency for one in his line of "work." Thus Bush looks stupid to anyone with an IQ over 115, by prattling about things like "no child left behind"; when every intelligent person, who ever attended grade school, knows that all children do not perform equally well on all subjects--and looking closer, on any subject.

Thus Bush speaks on immigration in terms that totally ignore the interests of American cultural continuity, and Tom Tancredo who tries to discuss contextual issues is overtly banned from the White House. Thus Bush continues & actually expands previous Leftwing Democratic initiatives, that wreak havoc on our economics, social values & functionality.

Rove is not a pure media creation, of course. He is an outrageous self-promoter; but a high school junior could manage a better campaign.

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