If you're running the democrat party and you can see where the eligibility issue is going, you're probably trying to come up with a way to distance yourself from obama and somehow save the party.
If, before the fan gets dirty, you can get out in front of the BC issue in such a way as to show that you were trying to do the right thing but were stopped by the WH, you almost look like a whistle-blower.
And, if you then officially learn that you were fooled by obama himself, along with everyone else...well, might be a way to make the best of a very bad situation, even save yourself and the party. While saving the Constitution and country. The game is afoot.
It is going to a feeding frenzy. There is blood in the water now and the sharks will be striking at and eating anything that comes close to them, including their own kind.