He’ll be an excellent public spokesman for the NRA, and he’ll also serve as an irresistible temptation for the left to further lose its collective mind, trying to demonize Ollie personally rather than dealing with the substance of the gun issue
NRA names its new president . . . and it’s Oliver North
Because the left apparently didn’t have enough reasons to be bonkers with rage against the National Rifle Association.
Ollie North is probably getting a bit long in the tooth as a conservative icon (raise your hand if you even remember Iran-Contra), but he certainly emerged nicely from what could have been a reputation killer and become one of the enduring faces of the conservative movement throughout the 1990s and much of the 2000s.
And Charleton Heston was no spring chicken when he took the gig. Ollie’s 74, and it’s not hard to picture him even today packing heat and knowing exactly what to do with it. Plus, he’ll be brilliant on TV. The NRA hit it well with this one: