Dukakis, Once Burned, Refuses to Be Optimistic About 2008 | The New York Observer

True to his technocratic roots, Mr. Dukakis has the idea of replicating, on every street, avenue, and rural route in the country, the kind of personal relationships that once powered big-city political machines—with precinct captains calling on their neighbors every few weeks, asking them about their concerns, talking up their candidate and following up on any questions they might have. Mr. Dukakis’ vision is rooted in good government—making sure, for instance, that a neighbor’s concerns about school vouchers are satisfactorily addressed.

That kind of personalized operation early on, Mr. Dukakis believes, can keep voters from believing the worst when the Willie Horton and Swift Boat campaigns begin.

Apparently on the left, at propaganda venues like the New York Observer, “Swift Boating” means something other than “getting the truth about a candidate’s lies of commission and omission about his past out to the general public.”

None of the Swift Boat veterans’ charges were ever disproved, and most of them were admitted as being true by John Kerry. No, I still don’t believe we’ve ever seen Kerry’s full official military records, by the way.

I look forward to Hillary Clinton running into the same thing.

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