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The Palin nomination had plenty of foreshadowing, despite MSM meme of it being a bolt from the blue

By Beldar

Simon at Stubborn Facts has a link-filled post (h/t Althouse) which refutes the MSM's meme that the Palin nomination "came out of the blue." Lots of people were becoming "Palinfatuated," and it wasn't just bloggers: Gov. Palin placed a close second behind Mitt Romney, for example, in the Pajamas Media online poll that began in mid-June and ran for several weeks, and Simon mentions a couple of other online polls in which she was clearly a favorite of internet-savvy conservatives.

That said, I was still surprised. Or, more accurately, I had methodically conditioned myself to be disappointed by a bland, safe, and uninspiring pick. And as it turned out, that expectation only made the exhilleration from the announcement doubly electric. But my surprise wasn't because she was unknown to me; to the contrary, it was, in my case, an instance of fondest hopes suddenly realized.

Full post as published by BeldarBlog on September 04, 2008 (boomark / email).