Leading up to last week’s Connecticut primary, we constantly heard of this “insurgency” in Connecticut. The right quickly labeled Lamont’s campaign as that, because he dared to challenge an incumbent.

Here we are one week later and look how things have changed:

White House Press Secretary Tony Snow said this morning that President Bush will not endorse Connecticut U.S. Senate candidate Alan Schlesinger (R) over Sen. Joe Lieberman even though he’s the Republican nominee.

If that isn’t enough for you, then take a look at this:

Interesting item from The Plank: “On Hardball Chris Matthews just asked Republican National Chairman Ken Mehlman what he will tell GOP donors who ask his advice: donate to Lieberman, or to the Connecticut Republican nominee, Alan Schlesinger? Mehlman dodged the question, saying he would tell just people to give cash to the RNC to spend strategically. When Matthews pressed him, Mehlman again refused the chance to say that the GOP clearly supports Schlesinger over Lieberman. Fascinating.”

So we got the country’s top Republican and the head of the Republican National Committee both refusing to back their own candidate in the general elections this fall. If what happened in the primary was an insurgency, then this is a full blown Jihad.