Democrats wondering why the voters won’t eat the Democratic talking points.

I love reading stuff like this.  No, really, I do. It’s always reassuring when my political opponents are so determined to ignore their real, structural problems:

Democrats “were not connecting with voters” in recent elections, a party report concluded Tuesday, a trend driven home by the party’s surprising loss of the Kentucky governor’s office this month.

“We lack a clear message about what unites and animates us as Democrats,” the Democratic Victory Task Force said.

You see, it’s much more accurate to say that they have too clear a message about what unites and animates them as Democrats, and it’s a very simple message: Wining is everything.  Which is, in and of itself, not the worst animating principle for a political party: it certainly beats, say, It’s all the fault of the Joooooooos. But the problem there is that when you base everything around how to win you don’t spend much time thinking about why you needed to win.  Which means that you’re at the mercy of whatever organized sub-group in your ranks has an internally consistent ideology.  This worked out for the Democrats when their ideology was provided by people who at least wanted to win the Cold War; it’s proving to be a bit more problematic, now that they’re following the lead of the increasingly-ironically-named ‘New Left.’  Just go ahead ask any Democratic ex-politician who suddenly joined the private sector: I mean, it’s not like it’s hard to find one.

That’s the bottom line, here: the voters understand the Democratic message just fine. Many of them just kind of want to keep a healthy distance from it. Just to be on the safe side.