It’s hard to believe that such a vile little pipsqueak as Michael Hayden was once an Air Force general and George W. Bush’s CIA director. Then again, given the Air Force’s leftward lurch and the steady rise of the deep state in recent years, perhaps his appointment was a harbinger.

Hayden, whose big mouth and bottomless Trump hatred would seem to make him an excellent fit for a weekend gig on MSNBC, picked a fight with Alabama Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville on Monday when he responded to a click-baity X post from someone named Nathalie Jacoby, which asked whether Tuberville should lose his seat on the Senate Armed Services Committee for his lonely but principled stand in defense of the Hyde Amendment and the unborn by blocking the Biden Department of Defense policy that reimburses military personnel who circumvent their state’s laws by traveling to another state to have an abortion.

“Should Tommy Tuberville be removed from his committee?” asked Jacoby.

To which Hayden sophomorically responded, “How about the human race?”

“This morning,” Tuberville replied, “my office was made aware of a statement made by General Michael Hayden calling for a politically motivated assassination. This statement is disgusting and it is repugnant to everything we believe in as Americans. Given General Hayden’s long career in Washington, he must have known that, by making such a statement, he was committing a serious crime.”

Tuberville then reported Hayden to the Capitol Police. But we won’t hold our breath.

On Tuesday, an indignant Hayden posted that he was “surprised to wake up this morning and discover MAGAnuts had lost their minds over my suggestions that ‘Coach’ Tuberville not be considered a member of the human race.”

Hayden, it should be noted, was one of the 51 treacherous “intelligence” officials who signed the infamous letter claiming that Hunter Biden’s laptop “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”

In fairness to Hayden, he suffered a stroke in 2018, and it’s possible that his current state of mind is due to that debilitating cognitive event. But if that’s indeed the case, it seems to us that his loved ones should’ve protected him by closing his Twitter account.

Tuberville, who played safety in college for the Southern State College Muleriders, and who coached young men in football at Auburn while Hayden was helping to perfect our nation’s domestic spying apparatus as NSA director, has consistently out-hit and out-strategized his political opponents on the Left and their mainstream media cheerleaders. The most recent example of this would be the aforementioned denial of unanimous consent in the Senate, which allows senior military nominations to move speedily forward. As Tuberville has repeatedly made clear in the face of withering opposition, “The hold will remain in place as long as the Pentagon’s illegal abortion policy remains in place.”

Good for him. And shame on Joe Biden for using our nation’s military as a tool for the furtherance of his party’s pro-abortion zealotry. As our Thomas Gallatin noted recently: “The Rule of Law only matters if it supports Biden’s political agenda. And abortion on demand anywhere and everywhere is the ‘good Catholic’ Biden’s policy position.”

Lest anyone think our national security is being compromised by the coach’s intransigence, our Nate Jackson noted that the months-long standoff partially ended “when [Senate Majority Leader Chuck] Schumer folded and scheduled three votes on promotions, including for chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.” Schumer’s move, he said, “was a tacit admission that Tuberville was right all along and it was really intractable Democrats who’d rather pay for abortions than promote military officers.”

It’s hard to say how many babies have had a chance to be born due to Tuberville’s one-man stand, but as The Daily Signal reports: “The Pentagon’s policy provides three weeks of taxpayer-funded paid leave and reimbursement of travel expenses for military personnel and dependents who are seeking abortions. An estimate from the Rand Corp. predicts the number of abortions in the military eligible for taxpayer-covered expenses would skyrocket from 20 to more than 4,000 each year.”

That’s a lot of life-saving, and the old coach is doing his part to ensure the future of the human race. And for it, Tuberville deserves our respect and our gratitude — along with a rousing War Eagle.