It makes sense. If Kerry had been better at or had more people defending himself, the swiftboating wouldn't have had such an impact. But that's the problem, the 2004 campaign swiftboating showed the far right that lying to hurt someone's reputation works if that person won't attack back. Hell, based on the facts Kerry could legally have sued the SBVFT for libel and won easily, and he should have.
Truthfully I'd actually support this website if it were non-partisan. Democrats aren't innocent of telling lies about the opposition (even if the R to D ratio is like 5 to 1). Then again I guess we already have that site and it's called politifact.com.