Reply #5: Well, I'm Agree Kerry's Made Mistakes

[liberalpragmatist]

I'm not saying he's run a perfect campaign at all. He's been too cautious in attacking Bush. He's not been forthright enough in stressing his own plans on domestic issues. The convention was good, but in hindsight, we needed to have been less Vietnam-centrist - that should've been a subtext, not the primary focus and Kerry shouldve stressed his own plans and attacked Bush more forcefully on the war.

But all campaigns make mistakes. Kerry's not lost yet. My point is that saying "so-and-so" would've been better is pointless. We never know and it's extremely possible that they all would've had similar problems right now. True, I should probably have titled my post "ANY Dem candidate would have had problems" - you're right, we don't know for sure if they'd all be behind right now. But they'd all have had problems, and it's silly to go on about how "so-and-so" would've been better.