In today's demonstration of his smallness, Pat Powers dismisses his former sweetheart Annette Bosworth's wild attempts at litigating her felony case in public as a "conspiracy thing." He takes this position because Gordon Howie has (stupidly, self-damagingly) promoted Bosworth's latest patient-turned-political smokescreener, whose video "testimony" is 100% irrelevant to the felony charges Bosworth faces.
Howie had a chance to see through Bosworth's baloney back in July. His interview with her (now deleted, darn it!) before her official campaign announcement exposed her ill-prepared conservative fakery and did nothing to deter Howie from immediately encouraging Stace Nelson to run. The only reason I can imagine Howie would offer even this mealy-mouthed not-quite defense of Bosworth would be to leverage her claims of corrupt "entrenched powers" for his own anti-Mike Rounds campaign. (Gordon, I'll say to you what I said to candidates before the primary: Annette Bosworth offers you no useful synergy.)
But Pat Powers is the baloney meister. When I said Annette Bosworth was bad news, Powers backed Bosworth, because he doesn't like me. When Gordon Howie says Annette Bosworth is good news, Powers backs away from Bosworth, because he doesn't like Howie. Blogging doesn't get much smaller than that.
Notice you've never seen an article or story telling us what great judgment Gordon Howie possesses. I would guess you never will.
Perhaps Annette and Chad are beginning to realize they had no reliable friends in the SDGOP after all.
Annette's job for the SDGOP Establishment is over because the primary is over. Sad that the media ties her to the tea party movement. Fake conservatives like her put a bad taste in people's mouths about conservatives. It helps flame the rhetoric that both political parties want mainstreamed...limited government proponents are extremists. That then typically leaves only two options in November; Neo-Fascism or Neo-Marxism. Either way big government and the ruling elite who control it win.