watching the democrat party careen off the road into the proverbial ditch is rather distressing. I am actually beginning to understand why this party has been so ineffective for so long. Why does the party seem to believe that this is their election to loose? And why is the leadership (what leadership??!!) willing to watch 2 candidates take each other apart to arrive at a weaker conclusion for the party as a whole? I see no reason why HRC has to drop out of the this primary, but I do think that the style of her campaign is obviously destructive to party interests. Now this is all obvious, but what I dont understand is why no one is stopping it? And if the party leadership cannot handle this situation in an assertive manner, one can understand why it has been highly ineffective in legislation for the last 8 years despite an unpopular president. Furthermore I see little reason to suddenly believe that they will be able to get their act together once in power. Watching this primary degenerate into the mess it is becoming is extremely frustrating and a lesson in futility.