She was confirmed in summer 2010 and it looks like Red State and other sites published the thesis a few months before in May, 2010. Free Republic even had a bunch of threads on it...
http://209.157.64.201/focus/f-news/2510901/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2513152/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2514328/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2514829/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2515349/posts
Well dang. I missed it.
Now, the Socialists/Commies are shouting out with glee...that their crazy plan is coming to fruition.