I agreed with your point, Charles, up to the last paragraph: the fact is that the MSM completely ignored his associations and did no investigation of him at all. When we less about him than about Sarah Palin - who was in the campaign for barely two months - then it doesn’t matter at all what kooks on the ‘right’ were saying. You’re blog-centric obviously, but the rest of the country isn’t as much, and obviously neither are the MSM. Remove that last paragraph and you’re right on the money.