Somebody get him a mocha, he's had a tough day. :(
True to form, the Republican Party has decided that the CNBC debate was a disaster not because the majority of their candidates are humiliating twits who can barely navigate their way through sixty seconds at a time of faux-substantive thought but because CNBC—that CNBC, the one with Larry Kudlow, the Tea Party Guy, and the Shouting One—were all sekrit liberals the whole time.
So RNC chair Reince Priebus has written a very huffy letter. To wit: Screw you guys, we're going home.
While debates are meant to include tough questions and contrast candidates’ visions and policies for the future of America, CNBC’s moderators engaged in a series of “gotcha” questions, petty and mean-spirited in tone, and designed to embarrass our candidates. What took place Wednesday night was not an attempt to give the American people a greater understanding of our candidates’ policies and ideas. [...]
While we are suspending our partnership with NBC News and its properties, we still fully intend to have a debate on that day, and will ensure that National Review remains part of it.
Ah ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha cough—stop, it hurts.
Well, that's it NBC. Your questions were too mean, so we're going home. We're gonna have our own debate, one where all our friends will be there, and there will be cake, and you're NOT INVITED BECAUSE WE HATE YOU.
This is just outstanding, really. Fourteen candidates who want to become leader of the free world, and the whole thing breaks down after moderators ask one guy about the crooked company he endorsed, another candidate about his tax plan that not even conservatives think is credible, and another about leading a business failure so epic that it's still used as Halloween story in darkened Silicon Valley computer labs.
Can't wait until the National Review has their debate. Can't wait to see the angry letter Reince fires off to that den of spiteful liberalism after the candidates stink up that one too.
10:32 AM PT: NBC responds:
“This is a disappointing development. However, along with our debate broadcast partners at Telemundo we will work in good faith to resolve this matter with the Republican Party.”