With Campaign 2008 in the books — finally — I am reminded of a conversation I had with Dominic Jacobetti some years before his death. For those of you too young to recall, “Jake,” as he was called, served in the State House of Representatives 40 years. He died in 1994. I won’t claim to have been in Jacobetti’s inner circle. I wasn’t. But I knew him well enough, and long enough, to be able to talk to him about people and issues. In this particular circumstance, the subject was the political process itself. Simply put, Jacobetti lamented the downward spiral politics was taking at the time, while recognizing that he was a part of it. He worried, and wondered aloud, where it would all end. I can’t help but wonder what he’d say about the campaign that’s just concluded. If you haven’t already guessed, I don’t like politics. It’s a messy, nasty business that gets worse with every election cycle. No one cares what they say anymore.