No, but doing it in a public way only gets you positive recognition by your conservative allies. This is why Gore chose him. To appeal to the right.

I could go for a good Lewinsky right about now.

I'll just agree to disagree. We could go around about this for hours and hours without getting anywhere.

We usually do. That's never stopped us before.
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They need us. How else would the LoT get a hot air balloon off the ground?

More like a fleet of LoT hot air balloons.

To appeal to the right or to appeal to the center? I think it is safe to say that not a single person on the actual right (of center as opposed to people to the right of the far left) voted for Gore because of Lieberman. It is far easier to imagine a centrist doing so.

Yes, I was seeing it more as appealing to people who were on the fence.

Most congressmen vote with their party the majority of the time.

There are other reasons than the war:

-the cloture vote on Alito
-that insane comment about another hospital being in driving distance in CT
-claiming he'd run independent if he didn't win his primary

Those are 3 off the top of my head.

And just for fun... He's Sean Hannity's favorite democrat.

I never said there weren't valid reasons to vote against. I just said that "he's not a real democrat" didn't really ring very true.

It's getting nasty in Connecticut. Leiberman's website was hacked, apparently, and the accusations are a-flyin'.