Reply #138: If you've read my posts above ...

[NanceGreggs]

... I have't bashed Kerry once. And I think people WERE listening, and I think he DID win that election, and it was stolen in the same way 2000 was from Gore. We're years later, and there are STILL stories coming out about what really went on in Florida and Ohio (as well as other states).

And I'm not complaining about the past. Someone posted about how he should have reacted to the Swiftboaters at the time, and I put in my two cents. That's NOT bashing him; that's looking back at something in retrospect and commenting on it.

But I DO blame the campaign consultants who are given too much credit for PAST successes, without taking into consideration that you have to change your tack with changes in the political landscape.

If you look back on what Paul Begala and James Carville did with the first Clinton campaign, it was genius. Would I rely on either one of them to run a campaign now? Never. They've both changed as people, the political climate has changed, and what was right for Clinton isn't necessarily right for a different candidate, with a different persona and different issues to speak to than the issues prevelant in the early 'nineties.