Hsu Hsin-liang, former chairman of the DPP and the first to declare his candidacy for the 2000 presidential election, expressed disappointment at Lien and Soong's rallies. He suggested that this decades-old style of Taiwanese electioneering, where candidates waste tremendous resources, is the method of yesterday's men, unsuited to leading Taiwan into the new millennium.
最早宣佈參選二○○○年總統的民進黨前主席許信良則對連、宋的造勢晚會表示失望，他表示，這種台灣數十年來選舉資源消耗戰模式，是老年人與老世紀的方式，不足以帶領台灣進入新世紀。