I was going to blog about this when I got a chance, but Sebelius beat me to it so just go read his sum-up.

The gist is that U.S. Senate candidate Danny Tarkanian alleged in a CNN piece today that Tea Party candidate Scott Ashjian is a puppet put into the race to help Harry Reid.  Tarkanian told CNN that “Harry Reid’s staff, campaign, whatever” recruited Ashjian to jump into the race as a third party candidate and that part of his reason for thinking so is that Ashjian, like Tarkanian, is of Armenian descent.

There is still no evidence that Ashjian is Reid’s (or anyone’s) spoiler, and I think this whole Armenian angle is pretty thin which caused me to have a little fun and Tweet this earlier:

Hey! @DannyTarkanian has 2 arms & legs & so does TeaParty candidate @scottashjian! @HarryReid musta planned that, too! #conspiracytheories

Also:  Bonus points to Harry Reid for using the word “conspiratorialists” in his CNN comments.

(Although, as a dear friend of mine loves to say:  “It’s not paranoia if they’re really out to get you.”)