James Carville on the way things are:

"We can deny this crap, but I'm out of the denial. I'm about reality here," Mr. Carville told reporters at a breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor. "We are an opposition party, and as of right now, not a particularly effective one. You can't deny reality here."

He said the party is desperately in need of a compelling narrative to tell voters, rather than the "litany of issues" the party stands for now.

Both Carville and Bob Shrum found ways to state in this article that the Republican party is anti-gay:

Carville -

"These guys had a narrative — we're going to protect you from the terrorists in Tikrit and from the homos in Hollywood. ..."

Shrum -

"The Democratic Party is not going to be better at competing with the Republican Party at being anti-gay. And frankly, I wouldn't be in that party. I would leave that party."

A narrative in the works?

The culture war is always easy ammo.