Evening Open Thread - Where do we go from here?

Sorry, but between blogger being kooky and me being exhausted, we haven't posted a lot today. Tomorrow will be back to our usual hyper-posting :-)

In the meantime, a few thoughts for an open thread:

What went wrong? Did we lose, did they win? Was it our message? Our lack of one? Too liberal? Too conservative? The war? Terrorism? Is Bush really that loved? Was Kerry the wrong candidate at the wrong place at the wrong time? Could Howard Dean have won? Bad turnout? The gays? Gay-baiting?

And what do we do now? Fight back harder? Be coniciliatory? Move to the left, move to the right? Throw out our leaders?

What went wrong and what should we do to win in the future?