Scooby's'pawn:I agree, he's not nearly left enough to fit in with what the Dems have become. He used to be smack in the middle of the Democrats ideologically. Now he's at the right fringe. If you read his record, he hasn't changed, the party has moved left without him.

Lieberman has always been slightly rightward of the Democrats on the authoritarian spectrum; the last few years have seen him become more and more repressive and anti-freedom. Remember how he dealt with Schiavo? Or his assertion that questioning the President on foreign policy was dangerous and intolerable? For that matter, he's also been on some sort of jihad against parents' right to decide what games are in their home; he's as much of a busybody as Tipper Gore. Yeah, he voted with the Democrats 90% of the time; it's just that the 10% where he didn't marks him as a sonofabiatch who never should have held political office. It's as if a judicial review board were to say "Sure, that judge ruled fairly and correctly 99% of the time. It's just that one percent of the time when he stood up in the courtroom and swore fealty to the principles of National Socialism and told that single mother to get back in the kitchen. He should be commended for his long service."

All the war issue did was wake us up to the fact that he doesn't belong in the Democratic party, and probably never did.