JOHN KERRY : STILL ALIVE AND STILL A TRAITOR

“I support Barack Obama because he doesn’t seek to perfect the politics of Swiftboating—he seeks to end it. This is personal for me, and for a whole lot of Americans who lived through the 2004 election. As a veteran, it disgusts me that the Swift Boats we loved while we were in uniform on the Mekong Delta have been rendered, in Karl Rove’s twisted politics, an ugly verb meaning to lie about someone’s character just to win an election.” —John Kerry

He still doesn't get it. No, John that's not what "Swiftboating" means.

Swiftboating: To expose the heinous lies of a political candidate with overwhelming evidence in a determined fashion, thereby derailing his campaign.

Definition by Rick.

Wikipedia has the definition wrong, as the article was obviously written , albeit in a scholorly manner by an obvious Ultra Left Wing author. They deam the term to be merely malicious slander, altho they don't use that term. They think it means "smear". And that's the trouble with what is otherwise a useful site: Anybody can write stuff, and get it wrong.

To be fair, they DO site some opposing definitions:

A group formed for the purpose of opposing John Murtha's reelection to Congress, Vets for the Truth, posts at its website a definition of "swiftboating" as "exposing the lies, deceit and fraud of self-glorifying public officials or candidates for office who exaggerate their military service by lying about their feats of heroism and combat wounds."

In a 2006 Veteran's Day interview, John O'Neill, spokesman for Swift Vets and POWs for Truth commented on the term's usage: "I think that's a word [swiftboating] people will use for however they want to. I have always thought that having left wingers go to bed at night, and put their little children to bed, and [saying] Be good little children or the Swiftboats will get you!... that has never particularly worried me...