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.
