@edgarblythe,
Quote: It's all a bunch of character assassination, these criticisms of OAC. They attack her because her positions align so well with Bernie Sanders. If she sounded like Hillary the Dems attacking her would be loving her as much as her followers.
I don't think you've got that quite right. There is character assassination going on, for sure, but that is mainly coming from the right. This is entirely predictable given her charisma, her confidence, her physical attractiveness and her communication expertise. She's a very real future threat, at least as seen from a GOP standpoint. So the strategy is to begin spreading negative memes about her to dampen enthusiasm and to forward a particular narrative that will hopefully serve their purposes later.
I read a lot of lefty opinion and there really has been very, very little that's negative in portrayals of her in that literature. But one can surely make the argument that she
may well be too confident of her knowledge and abilities -
at this point. But these are the sorts of things which we quite validly attend to with a "rising star" politico of such a young age.