Help me understand.

I've been trying to figure out the first congressional district Democratic primary all day.

There was one candidate who was head and shoulders above the rest.

He ran a good campaign, I saw him out in the community, his hospitality table at the Dem convention got rave reviews, he is a successful businessman, his positions (though I disagreed with them) were presented well, yadda yadda yadda.

I am speaking of course about Steve Herr, he finished FOURTH out of five.

And who finished in front of him?

Jeff Thomas, six, soon to be seven time loser. This guy can not stream a thought together with something else getting in the way.

Mike Herbert. Really bad signs all over the place, no website, just lots and lots of union pals.

Ruth Santa Cruz - Bradley. A nice but a bit old lady who's position on gay marriage would make most of my democratic readers heads explode, no experience at all.

Throw in Don Hall, he of the knuckle dragger in a blue suit rhetoric, he deserved the Howard Dean nutball award in this race.

Steve Herr was serious new blood into the area party, they threw him aside for this menagerie of misfits. How must he feel? Dejected? Most assuredly.

As usual the Democratic party does exactly the wrong thing at exactly the wrong time.

Seriously, I have no idea why they do what they do.