An couple important lessons from 2004 we need to learn

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Lesson number one, we can't make electability the sole issue in the primaries. It is impossible to guess months before an election what the public is going to be looking for. For all the talk of electoral disaster given nominating certain candidates, we went for the most electable candidate and we still had the disaster. We lost all five Senate races in the South, we lost Dashle's seat in South Dakota, we lost to a loon in Kentucky, we lost to the personification of nepotism run amok in Alaska. It is hard to imagine doing worse.

Lesson number two, we need to be a real opposition party. We can't allow Bush to have sucesses. Look at the Republicans in the 1990's. They were utter obstructionists and paid no price at all for it.

I have no idea if Dean would have won or not. But, I do know that unless we stand for something as a party other than winning races, then we won't win races. It is that simple.