Senator Cory Booker scolded Meghan McCain for insulting fellow presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke during his appearance on The View.
The panel was discussing O’Rourke’s and Booker’s support of gun buyback programs when McCain told him the proposals are “a left-wing fever dream.”
“I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because let me tell you, he’s not giving it back,” she asked Booker.
“I’m not where Beto is in the way he’s talking about this…” Booker replied.
“Good, because he’s crazy,” McCain quipped.
McCain’s response wasn’t cool with Booker, who gave the petulant princess of Arizona a stern talking-to.
“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” the New Jersey senator said. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”
Unfortunately, maturity isn’t one of McCain’s strengths.
“He has no problem doing it to me,” the 35-year-old said. “He was very nasty to me about this.”
“But you and I both know when somebody does something to us doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker, an actual adult, responded.
McCain wouldn’t let it go and justified her actions by pointing out she wasn’t running for office.
“I’m not running for president, all due respect. The way he talks about me inciting violence on this I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red-state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not,” she said.
McCain’s beef with O’Rourke started in September when he criticized her for claiming gun buyback programs would cause “a lot of violence.”
“I just think that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful,” O’Rourke told The Daily Beast last month. “It becomes self-fulfilling; you have people on TV who are almost giving you permission to be violent and saying, ‘You know this is … going to happen.’”
