CNBC Debate was a huge win for the GOP

Ignore your social media feeds... it's full of establishment pundits and your Liberal friends. They don't understand the truth, that what happened last week on CNBC was a huge win for all of the GOP candidates...

HE FIGHTS!!!

Most of the support for Trump can be summed up this way... "HE FIGHTS!", the Trumpkins on Twitter will say. Sometimes they change it up to "HE HAS BALLS!" but that's really just another way of saying the same thing.  Well last week it was like the GOP Candidates got jumped in a biker bar, but instead of folding and getting shipped to the hospital in a long line of somber ambulances, they turned back to back and dove into the fray. They fought like gladiators... wrestled the moderators to the ground, and choked them out. It was a huge win for the candidates, especially those like Cruz who are hoping to overtake Trump. There's a reason why Cruz was widely credited as the winner of the night... because he led an incredibly effective counter-attack against an obvious Left-Wing Media hit squad.  And if Obama wants to crack jokes in front of his sycophantic supporters about the GOP not being able to handle moderators, let him. He's not the target audience for an off-year October GOP debate, and neither are those supporters.

BUT... BUT... THE DONORS!!!!

I saw several insider/pundits, Rick Wilson chief among them, reporting during the debate that big money donors were telling them the debate was a disaster for the GOP. I happen to like Rick a lot, and he's forgotten more about politics than I'll ever know, but who cares? Isn't it clear that this election is as anti-donor class as any election in our lifetimes? Let them whine... what are they going to do, stay home with their checkbooks closed? At the end of the day they will fall in line. They stand to make more money off a GOP President than any of us. And again, the donor class was not the target audience for this debate... at least not as it turned out.

MEDIA BIAS ON DISPLAY

Look, the truly committed Leftists will never admit it. But everyone to the right of Bernie Sanders saw media bias on display last week in all its glory and many, to their credit, were even willing to say so. A Liberal friend of mine once tried to get me to watch a dopey Fox News documentary in which, he said, the money quote was Shepherd Smith caught on camera saying "this is why people hate Fox" when some right wing bias slipped out on camera. Well that door swings both ways. I think an awful lot of moderate to center-left voters started to wonder just how deep the rabbit hole of media bias goes last week, and that's a huge win going forward. Next time Candy Crowley steps in with a timely assist for a struggling Democrat during a debate, perhaps it won't pass so unnoticed by everyone not already pre-disposed to vote GOP.

Folks... that's three big wins for the GOP... you can embrace it and hope the next debate will be better in terms of substance and issues... or you can wallow in donor-class hysteria until you're miserable. It's your choice.