Are you saying you expected Lieberman, as an honest Joe, not to play along to the hilt with Daley, once they embarked on the recount debacle? That's unrealistic. That's the moral equivalent to the Dems blaming Bush for resisting recounts.
He's a politician; he plays the game. It wasn't his call to contest the Florida vote. Sorry, I just believe him that he wouldn't want the military ballots thrown out.
As for Gore, I give him the benefit of no doubt whatsoever. I giggled at my brother (a Democrat) for believing nonsense that it was an independent effort to throw out those other absentee ballots on that technicality.
He's a politician; he plays the game. It wasn't his call to contest the Florida vote. Sorry, I just believe him that he wouldn't want the military ballots thrown out.
If Lieberman had even a shred of decency, he would have walked away from Gore when the 2000 debacle began. There is no way an "honest Joe" could go along with such a blatently illegal attempt.
There is no moral equivalency - Bush was morally and ethically required to resist the illegal actions of Gore and Daley. Lieberman was morally and ethically required to break from Gore/Daley and say that they were doing wrong. To "play along to the hilt," is not only being an accessory to the crime but an absolute collapse of character.
Playing the game is the excuse of the scum politician and Lieberman blew whichever way the media wind blew, a flaw of the scum politician.