Here We Go Again

So James Carville thinks "The purpose of a political party is to win elections."  It's all becoming so clear now.  The purpose of a political party isn't to win elections, it's to govern.  That's not Carville's problem - he's the salesman.  But there he is telling Democrats what it is he can sell.  And there the Democrats go listening to him because they put winning at a higher priority than getting the governing part right.  Winning elections may be a damn near pre-requisite in allowing a political party to govern, but you have to go about winning elections within the ideological framwork of how you want to govern - not go about governing within the political framework of how you think you can win elections.  If you don't people will recognize the fraud.  Winning the popular vote in 2000 and losing by a couple percentage points in 2004 doesn't indicate the democratic arty has been exposed as a fraud, but clearly we need to do better.  Making up who we think we should be isn't going to help.