CT SEN UPDATE: Kossacks React

The major CT bloggers (Spazeboy, My Left Nutmeg, Connecticut Blog, Connecticut Bob, and Lamont Blog) are wrapping Bill Clinton's announcement that he is campaigning for for Sen. Joe Lieberman (D) into their Quinnipiac poll posts. Most claim Team Lieberman chose to play the "Clinton card" only now that he is behind in the polls. The silence on the front pages of the major national blogs is deafening. Nothing on DailyKos' or MyDD's main page. Atrios has a one line link to a Jane Hamsher post that was originally about the Quinnipiac poll.

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Meanwhile DailyKos diarist are not staying silent. A sampling of DailyKos diarist opinions:

• Ivan: "It's on! The Clintons have chosen their side, and I have chosen mine. We have to demonstrate that we can beat the Republicans our way, not the Clinton way. We can rant and rail against the Clintons, the DLC, Lieberman, and the lot, but unless we win elections, it's all academic.
• GiveMeLibertyOrDeath: "This is so infuriating and once again self-destructive for the Democratic public image and any hope of putting out a real message."
• shergald: "Remember that Clinton is part of the DLC movement, which believes that the country has moved right and that a centrist Democratic thrust is necessary to achieve electoral success. That meant compromise with the right. And who else has been more willing to compromise with the right: Lieberman."
• Hesiod: "I have always been suspicious that Bill and Hillary are playing Good Cop/Bad Cop on various issues. Hillary herself can't come out and endorse campaign for Joe Lieberman in the primary. But her husband can. And, this way they get to play both sides against the middle. She benefits from being a "good democrat" who won't disrespect Connecticut Democratic primary voters, and Bill can go out and campaign for Joementum so as not to alienate "moderates."
• CTLiberal: "Awww Bill Say it ain't so...I'm disappointed in him. I agree with your premise that Hillary and Bill are playing both sides..."
• Billy Shears: "More proof that the Clintons are obsolete as a political force. Let's dispose of them in the same dustbin we will put the Bush family in."
• oldjohnbrown: "What on Earth is he thinking? Sometimes I wonder if he is. I remember when Dean became DNC chair, Clinton in his speech for the occasion remarked something to the effect that 'nobody here disputes that NAFTA was good for the economy.' There's no way he didn't know that Dean did exactly that."
• Paleo: "I hope this is the final straw for all the remaining Clinton defenders on this board. The guy lives to screw the left. And he campaigns for a Holier than though Joe who condemned him during the Lewinsky affair. While the left was defending him!"
• JoeOhioan: "Is this really a big surprise? I mean, politicians are nothing if not incumbent protectors. And Clinton is just another politician, after all is said and done. A brilliant man, a great leader, and all that. But still a politician. Hell, not only a politician, but married to a politician. Married to an incumbent."
ActivistGuy: "Triangulator Bill knows he would have done to Joe what Joe did to him if the roles had been reversed. Holy Joe just laid a Sister Souljah moment on Bill is all. Peas in a pod. Very natural endorsement.
• John Campanelli: "I don't have a problem with this I still think Lamont will win. But by bringing out the big guns in the form of the Big Dawg, Democrats simply make Lieberman that much more obligated to the party. If he does anything that flirts with the Republicans, party leaders can say, "We did all we could to help you and yet you still turn to Republicans to maintain your seat?" It would send the message home that Lieberman is devoted more to himself and not the party.
• IndyScott: "It's On Days Like This That I really think we have to consider a new political party and let the Democratic Party destroy itself." [CONN CARROLL]