Caucused with the Democrats, as did Bernie Sanders, giving them Operational Majority with 51 members of Congress Caucusing with them. So right off the bat, the Democratic Caucus held the majority in the Senate in the 110th Congress.
Lieberman voted with his caucus
87% of the time. To put this in perspective, that "independent" who you're not wanting to call a solid democratc vote voted in line with the Democrats more than 24 Republicans voted in line with their own party. That's right, out of 49 Republicans in Congress, 24 (essentially half) cast less votes in line with their party than Lieberman did with the Democrats. Yet you're trying to play him off as if he wasn't essentially a Democrat for all intents and purposes in voting on the vast majority of issues (indeed, almost 9 in every 10 issues).
You attempt to point out Lieberman's support for McCain 2 years after the 2006 congress starts, but ignore that he was put up as the NUMBER TWO position in the Democratic Party just 2 years prior. So apparently supporting a Presidential ticket on the other side is a bigger deal than actually being ON the Presidential ticket for your own side.
Congrats, you've found one issue Lieberman sided with the Republicans on routinely. Care to deal with the other 87% of issues?
Indeed, in a state where the Republican had no chance to win so the vote was for "Guy who won't win" / "Guy whose liberal but we like in one area" / "Guy whose REALLY liberal".
Sorry, hate to throw those nasty things like "facts" out there, but in 2006 to 2008 at the very least you're just completely and utterly incorrect. The Republican who voted with the party the least in the 110th Congress...Roger Wicker...did so only 14% of the time. As horribly ABYSMAL as that is, its still better than Lieberman's 13% voting in line with the Republicans. There was not a single Republican senator that Lieberman voted greater than in terms of votes with the Republicans.
I don't, I toss stones at people protecting themselves with strawman and wax paper like yourself. You tried to pathetically and ridiculously cherry picked, got called on it, and your only defense is attempting to hold McCain out as some kind of brilliant shield while denying that in the same distance of years he was the parties #2 guy, you ignored his voting record, and you ignored his own choice of what side he caucused with which gave operational majority.
I'm not the one in a glass house.