Brilliant maneuver, Governor Ritter. You’ve succeeded in underlining the problem with your candidate’s lack of experience. If 18 months isn’t enough experience to be a guy people think about once every blue moon, how is 143 days enough experience to be Commander in Chief?

Rosen: “Why don’t you think you’d be a good choice?”

Ritter: “Well, just because, I think there are a lot of things that he has to take into consideration. I’ve been governor for 18 months. My experience before that was as a district attorney. I loved being a district attorney…but I don’t think that’s what Barack Obama’s looking for in a vice president. I’ve been governor for 18 months. It’s been a great experience. But it’s just 18 months…Obama has to think about experience…levels of experience…”

[Ritter then discusses other VP possibilities...Tim Kaine, Evan Bayh...praises their experience, foreign policy creds...Joe Biden/chair of Senate Foreign Relations committee..."Any of those three would make sense to me"...Kathleen Sibelius is a great woman...]

That’s Colorado Governor Bill Ritter (D) on the Mike Rosen show this morning. When a caller called him out on his remark, he quickly changed the subject:

Caller Richard from Windsor: “Governor, you said 18 months’ experience wasn’t enough experience as governor to be the vice president. Would you want to contrast that with the 143 days’ experience Obama as senator before he decided he had enough experience to be president.”

Ritter: All I can tell ya is I am a fan of Barack Obama’s. Met him in 2004 during his campaign for Senate…You meet him and discover there’s something very different about him. That’s all I’ll say.

So his entire rebuttal is the equivalent of “Barry’s awesome and stuff!”. Good show, Governor. Good show.