Reply #34: Yep. A lot of folks were none too happy with the "high road" approach [View All]

[depakid]

Among other things, people saw shades of the Dukakis campaign with Bush I.

Interestingly enough though, A LOT of criticism was directed not at Kerry personally- but at his advisers, who were often called out by name:

Tad Devine, Mary Beth Cahill, and Bob Shrum drew considerable ire for crafting what some (rightly) saw to be ineffective methods for dealing with the Republicans' dishonesty, arrogance and condescension- as well as the corporate media's uncritical and equivocal repetition of whatever claims they made.

Contrast that with the current situation, where you rarely ever hear criticism of Obama's campaign higher ups (except the time during the primaies when Hillary was called a monster).