Even as I watched the video of the student rioters Islamic thugs surging over the fences of our Embassy in Tehran so many years ago, my first thought was "They would never even have dared try this if we had a President worthy of the office." Certainly the ensuing debacle of Carter’s obsequious entreaties to Khomeni and his radical Islamist supporters was painful for Americans to witness.  Jimmie pea-nuts was the first American President to grovel before a foreign power – although it is also clearly the instinctive reaction for the current occupant of the office. As Khalili details, this was a deliberate, carefully-orchestrated assault intended to humiliate "the Great Satan" and exploit the weakness of the credulous incompetent in the Oval Office. Khomeni succeeded and the Islamists flocked to his cause.

Further, this success inspired and empowered the fanatics of the Revolutionary Guard and its counterparts in other parts of Iranian society. Khalili shows how the RG proceeded to infiltrate terrorist teams across the globe, create sub rosa links to rogue states such as North Korea, obtain weapons and training from their co-religionists, the PRC and the French (among others), ally themselves with localized terrorist groups like the Red Army Faction, Basque Separatists or IRA, how they created Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad and other organizations as fronts for their international jihadist campaign. And Jimmie piddle-pants? Well, he prayed they would find peace in their hearts. When he finally authorized action, the limitations he imposed on the resources committed and the RoE foreordained its failure – which further energized the fanatics.

The author’s focus is not on the US Presidents (although he does note in passing, chronologically within his narrative, how all of them since 1975 have failed the people of Iran in some measure at different points), but rather how Iran and its people have been butchered and intimidated by Islamic zealots. Still, I remember that fateful Sunday vividly, and my anger then was second only to what I would feel almost 22 years later. Thus, as Khalili documents the spreading cancer of the Iranian mullahs and the RG, it is impossible, for me at least, not to see how Carter’s pitiful, sniveling, behavior in 1979/80 opened the gates to these barbaric troglodytes.

The parallel of this to the Iranian nuclear weapons program and the current utterly unqualified incompetent is equally obvious. The disproportionate cost of Carter’s cowardly ineptitude must not repeated in the coming years with the far higher table stakes represented by crazed suicidal cultists on the verge of obtaining nuclear weapons. Nevertheless, but for Jimmie piddle-pants, we’d not be faced with this horrific possibility in the first place. Only history will know whether he or Ø was the greater failure, but for the sake of our descendants, let us hope the former’s place is secure.

No longer can we afford to play Sir Galahad with these animals and their enablers. This isn’t like previous wars. This time the enemy is among us, looking for ways to murder our people, destroy our culture and, essentially, to replace the progress of civilization achieved in the past 1500 years with the mad ravings of a pederastic savage.

Before the liberal witch hunt, the CIA had some extraordinary tools to effect this at a distance, virtually instantaneously, silently (not suppressed,  SILENT ) and undetectably. That information is out there, in the heads of technicians and intelligence officers, no matter what the goody-two-shoes have done to destroy the data, no matter how much the PC government has forgotten.

It is past time to discard Jerry Ford’s ludicrous Executive Order prohibiting assassination as a tool of foreign policy. It is time to undertake a campaign with the Mossad and other intelligence agencies of governments not dominated by beta males and pro-actively kill the enemy,  wherever  we can find them, BEFORE they strike. The traitor(s) who compromised this information and the socialist twit who released it would be a good place to start. Further, I personally believe the editorial boards of the NY Times, Washington Post and similar anti-American publications should be given some enhanced interrogations with an eye to filing charges of knowingly giving aid to the enemy, if not flat-out treason. They have been doing this for at least 40 years and they need to be constrained from continuing this practice.

We cannot afford to carry on as if the enemy will operate by any of the norms which have developed in civilized societies, for the enemy are crazed flea-bitten savages in behavior if not literally. We cannot fight for our lives while the duplicitous leftists stab us in the back and aid those external enemies.

No, no more Mr. Nice Guy. We need to return to the principles of the nation which waged war on the terrorists’ ancestors (both literally and philosophically) under Thomas Jefferson, the America which brooked no attack on our people or territory in 1846 and 1941; we must embrace and follow the principles described in JFK’s Inaugural Address and exemplified by Ronald Reagan.

It won’t happen as long as this petulant, effete, clueless, incompetent, narcissistic wimp sits in the Oval Office, but if we can’t impeach him for malfeasance before 2013, this should be a key campaign position in 2012 at the very least . . . and the first policy the new President implements. Those who hurt us CANNOT be allowed to escape retribution. They need to know to a certainty we will give no quarter nor will we forget their acts.

Kelly actively lobbied Governor Lynch to veto an expansion of the Castle Doctrine, allowing people to protect themselves in their homes. Ovide has been a member of the NRA since 1992 and has earned A ratings from them.

I well remember that veto and it was symptomatic of the liberal agenda Lynch has pursued over the past six years. I’ve not been able to extract a clear reply from the Ayotte campaign on the matter – which would tend to affirm the allegation.

But in looking over the Ayotte web site and speaking to her political director, I discovered the "F" rating Lamontagne received from the NH Firearms Coalition and the reason for it: HB 1528 (filed in 1994 at his behest), which would bar firearms from school property. While superficially innocuous, the wording, often vague, would have barred possession of firearms across most of the state.  Although I attended the hearing on this terrible bill, I don’t remember the testimony – except, IIRC – no one testified  FOR it. Some of the testimony from the hearing transcripts is reproduced here, first from various Directors of GO-NH:

Article 2-A [ of the NH Constitution - ed. ] states that all people have the right to keep and bear arms in defense of themselves, their family, their property and the state. I find this bill to be a flagrant, hideous attack on that constitutional  [sic] right.

. . . this bill will apply the term "safe school zones" not only to school property but also to any site of any field trip however transient its use for school purposes [ including the highways upon which the buses run - ed.] <snip> this bill will apply to home schools <snip> the term "legitimate purpose" at most applies only to rifles and shotguns during hunting season.

This bill potentially affects every gun owner in the state.

Then several private citizens spoke out, noting the vague wording would likely trap many innocents in technical violations, essentially bar hunters and CCW holders from most areas and was directly contrary to the provisions of both State & Federal Constitutions.

Now, I’m a cynical person where politicians are involved. Lamontagne joined the NRA in 1992. In 1994, he testified in support of this broad attack on civil liberty – INTRODUCED  ON  HIS  URGING  IN  HIS  WORDS – by identifying himself as ". . . a member of the NRA and GO-NH. " The timing of his memberships was auspicious in providing a cloak of righteousness to legislation extremely hostile to civil liberties and is not unlike G. H. W. Bush joining the NRA just before running for the Presidency and resigning a few years later when his FBI stooges were criticized for murdering members of the Weaver family in the Ruby Ridge incident.

For those who predicate their support for a candidate on the RTL issues (not a criticism of them, but an observation), Lamontagne has impeccable credentials. For those whose focus is wider, he has a lot of negative baggage and was blown away in his last state-wide election in 1996 while the (R) candidates took both the House seats and the Senate.

Nothing in Ayotte’s record is as offensive to firearms owners as this episode. She is by no means an ideal candidate for conservatives (I can think of several I would prefer), but she’s to the right of lame duck Judd "Silk Stocking" Gregg and the weird sisters of Maine. As a firearms owner, as someone who views the 2nd Amd as the true cornerstone of our liberty, I just can’t bring myself to support the person who instigated HB 1528.

Not content to burden the American economy with trillions of debt for ill-conceived, mismanaged and largely valueless programs, the 0bamas treat taxpayers’ wallets as their petty cash fund. What previous President used a government plane solely to transport his pet or government monies to fund a week in a five star Spanish hotel for his consort, child and an entourage of thirty sycophants? Who else has ever vacationed so frequently, in venues which grossly inconvenience the public and engender massive costs?

Acadia. National. Park. Campsite reservations are full within 48 hours of being opened to the public on January 1st – it is the most popular of our National Parks. How many ordinary citizens were displaced or prevented from enjoying the full range of this resource because the 0bamas wanted to use it? Hawaii, the set of Harry Potter ,  enough golf outings to qualify for a Pro-Am tournament, etc. Allegedly, the plebeian fare of the White House chefs is augmented from time to time by wings and pizza flown in for The Anointed One. Allegedly, there is at least one party every other evening at the Peoples’ House . . . for the glitterati, who seem to be the principle groups of this President. Andy Jackson would not approve . . . .

What other President would place more importance to appearing on The View than honoring the 100th Anniversary of the Boy Scouts? But that snub is trival . . . think for a moment – can anyone even imagine another President placing a party with a Beatle above honoring those who gave their lives to defend our Republic? Not mere hubris, that, but truly obscene.

His predecessors were content largely with Camp David, the properties of supporters or their own homes. Not this crew. But then again, who would voluntarily pick Chicago as a vacation destination if there were an alternative?

This is not a "post-racial" Presidency, but a post-responsibility Presidency, an entitlement mentality ensconced at the hub of power and money. Clinton exploited women, JFK used his security detail to deliver hookers, but 0bama uses the whole nation as his ho’s.