You mean-spirited people!
Senator Lautenberg made it very clear, fairness demands that he be put on the ballot. The law is unfair!
It's just too important that the Democratic Party remain in power, we've fought too long:
Fighting polluters! Unfettered abortion!
More drugs for seniors! Saving Social Security from deficit spending!
And other beneficial acts of socialism.
National Dems really believe that they are the only thing standing between this country and the Fourth Reich-- to them, that is not just rhetoric. Once they convinced themselves of that, you can justify any action. They believe themselves to be morally superior. For example, the Torch never expressed a moment's remorse for what he did except to whine that he may lose an election, and that was more than unacceptable to the Dems, it was immoral. The Clintonization of the once-proud Dem Party is complete. Disgusting.