UPDATE: YouTube video after the jump
When debating with a hapless McCain supporter in Rep. Michelle Beachman (R-MN) on Larry King Live tonight, James Carville unleashed the following response to her claim that Gov. Sarah Palin has actually “done something instead of running for president her entire life”:
Let’s go through the facts here. There are a lot of people who have done something. Here’s a woman who Pat Buchannon supported for President, who wanted to teach creationism in the Alaska public schools, denies all of the science on global warming, has left the country once in her entire life, had one 15 minute conversation with Sen. McCain, and then we’re gonna put her up in the entire Republican party. If they wanted to nominate a woman, they could have had Sen. Olympia Snow. Highly respected. Reform oriented. Unbelievable integrity. Expert in foreign policy. She would have been supremely qualified. And yet, we are being led to believe that we have someone who has not even served two years as governor of Alaska — which is a state, by the way, that’s swimming in money — and she’s qualified to be president because she sold the state airplane. I mean, this is a very, very complicated world.
Looks like the Ragin Cajun has still got the juice.
“My problem with this woman is not what kind of mother she is and not what her values are. It’s that she’s uniquely and supremely unqualified for the office of which they’ve selected her to run for. It’s kind of unfair to her,” Carville later said when asked if the news about her daughter’s pregnancy impacts Palin’s ability to govern.
Rep. Beachman fired back that Carville’s comments were “demeaning to women,” after which the debate went south.
And so it begins.
Tags: cnn, feminism, james carville, larry king live, leadership credentials, michelle beachman, sarah palin
I am a Democrat and I am insulted and I think that Olympia Snow should feel insulted that McCain would pick someone with next-to- no experience. Senator Snow is an incredible woman with lots of experience — a true role model. I believe that she would have gained the ticket a lot of respect with her expertise. And she is not the only Rep woman who should have been considered first.
The pick of Palin is a SLAP in the face to women who have worked very hard to gain their positions in the Senate and House and know world politics, economics etc.
As if any of us expect to believe that Sen McCain, will say, “Well now Sarah what shall we do about this situation in Georgia, Pakistan? etc.”
“Oh by the way, what about changing the federal interest rates?”
etc etc etc
His failure to pick someone with experience either shows he is ignorant of what the president must know or he does not plan to ever ask her for advice.
You go Carville!!!!!!!!!! I agree 100%… It’s like this . I want to be a surgeon, but< i don’t know how to perform surgery!!! I watched ER and Grey’s Anatomy, that should qualify me for the surgeons position.. Go figure!!!!!!!!
You are absolutely right, and with that same analogy Obama should not be running for President. Doesn’t the office of the President require at least as much experience as the Vice-President? Everyone is more concerned about the Republicans Vice President’s experience in order to mask the lack of experience that the Democrats have running as their Presidential choice. Call me crazy
James Carville is a breath of fresh air. I’m not a big confrontation person however, with Carville it isn’t a matter of confrontation it’s a matter of him knowing what he is talking about, it helps that the Republicans didn’t do their homework on Palin. James is precise, speaks in terms that anyone can understand and most of all handles these talking heads and exposes their dishonesty. I am an Independent NOW working for Obama. Ms. Snow is a smart lady it’s sad to see her say things she didn’t know were not true. “Sarah has been to Iraq” WRONG “Sarah has been to Ireland”, give me a break her plane got fuel. “Sarah sold the state jet on e-bay” NOT I can only imagine McCain and Palin in the White House and what lies they would lay on the American people.