[Madeleine Ward]

Swiftboating to me means:

Investigating the truth of what a person claims to be true about himsself/herself and then exposing any lies they have told.

Swiftboating has been around for a long time. I believe most company HR departments practice it when they check references and check other information on the resume and application such as degrees, etc. Colorado was quite remiss in not doing its homework on Ward.

[siddude]

Yup, exactly. Great definition! Please swiftboat this person before we bring him on board..

[GretchenM]

The one who wrote to the editor seems to think that swiftboating is a group of people ganging up on an unfortunate victim to deny the vic the right to keep doing illegal / questionable deeds.