According to observers far and wide, including may on this site, the continuation of the contest for the Democratic nomination is a pending disaster for the party. I have been hearing this for at least a month now. Apparently sometime in early to mid-March is the drop-dead date for picking a nominee.
Here is what is most confusing about that position.
The remaining Democratic primary schedule
April 22
Pennsylvania
May 3
Guam
May 6
Indiana
North Carolina
May 13
West Virginia
May 20
Kentucky
Oregon
June 3
Montana
South Dakota
June 7
Puerto Rico
Why did the Democratic Party actually schedule primary dates up to a full three months beyond the date after which it would be a total disaster for them not to have a nominee, the date on which whoever was in second place absolutely had to quit for the sake of the survival of the party?
Hillary Clinton has little if any chance to win the nomination, but there are still primaries on the schedule, primaries on dates that were approved by the party, primaries which the party went to great lenghts to keep late in the schedule, by punishing states which moved theirs to earlier dates. It is the height of hypocrisy for anybody related to the Democratic Party to tell Senator Clinton that she should not compete in primary elections that they scheduled, in a race that, by their rules, is not yet fully decided.
I want this to be over and for us to have a nominee. I will be perfectly happy when Barack Obama becomes that nominee, but all of this hand-wringing and the breathless pleas for Hillary Clinton to drop out of the race can only be called nonsense. Let the primaries procede as scheduled and stop trying to tell her what to do.