The media has a new darling in the Republican presidential disaster pageant: Carly Fiorina.

She dominated, “dropped the mic,” “owned the stage” and of course she did it all while “standing in a pair of 3½-inch heels for three hours.”

This amount of drooling should come with a year’s supply of bibs.

It is true that she found a way to effectively engage and combat the Republican front-runner, something her male counterparts had struggled to do. Good for her.

But before the fawning frenzy spins out of control, let’s take a breath and an honest look at whom it is that is being cheered.

Part of Fiorina’s appeal, at least among Republicans, is the thirst for an outsider. A Washington Post/ABC News poll taken earlier this month found that 58 percent of Republicans and 64 percent of conservative Republicans want the next president to be “someone from outside the existing political establishment.”