Saying anything to win...

According to the website of the newly launched 'New Politics Institute' :

• The rise of the conservative movement – Through the shrewd investment of billions of dollars over a generation, the conservative movement has built a powerful 21^st century political machine that has transformed American politics and culture, among other things ending the 100-year-long dominance of progressive thought and politics. NPI will help progressives better understand this new machine and offer strategies for taking it on each day.
  

Kos says:

• Yesterday, I took part in a press conference call to announce the New Politics Insitute -- an NDN think tank focused on winning elections, not policy.

Focus on winning elections but not policy?

Is that "progressive" code language for "say whatever the voters want to hear and then go about dragging the country further left down the socialist rathole behind France and Canada" ?