Biggest surprise of this year's Republican primary season

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How did Gingrich's surprise win in SC not make the list?

[WhyteRain]

The BIGGEST surprise is that Romney got the nomination at all.

Famed pollster Dick Morris in a book published in early-2011 said that Romney had "no chance".  I thought the same thing for the same reason:  That there was no way that, less than two years after the Tea Party, motivated by the passage of ObamaCare, gave the GOP the biggest midterm election victory in generations, the Republicans were was going to nominate the most anti-Tea Party candidate and the unapologetic architect of the prototype for ObamaCare.  (I thought Romney would start his campaign with an apology for RomneyCare but that even that wouldn't save him as the conservatives eventually coalesced around one candidate.)

Now I did predict that the MSM would savage all of Romney's rivals and try to open a path for him to the nomination, but I underestimated just how successful the MSM would be.  (Likewise, I was shocked at the MSM's success in defeating the Clinton Machine in 2008.  I'll never underestimate them again.)