Democratic Post-Election Quotes of Note

From a report in the Alameda Times-Star:

Former President Bill Clinton said, "We have to be present with a compelling message in small towns and rural areas. If we don't make the message, we can't complain when we're demonized, cartoonized as aliens."

Excuse me if I missed something, but isn't that what Kerry did? He went to the hustings spewing he was a gun-totin', national defense kind of guy. Unfortunately for him, nobody believed that a Massachusetts liberal possesses those qualities.

Robert Borosage, co-director of the liberal Campaign for America's Future, said, "Democrats have started forming their circular firing squads."

Oddly, Borosage is a Democrat criticizing other Democrats instead of the "intolerant and ignorant" [Hat tip: Maureen Dowd] Americans.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, said, "Quite frankly, I think the table is set for us in the next election. We have lost just about everything that we can lose."

I don't understand how losing everything sets the table. Maybe that's Democratic lingo. What is understandable, though, is that the Democrats did not lose their defining set of core principles. They don't seem to have any.