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Well, yes, I agree with all this. Markey screwed up, and he screwed up in the wrong way. During his short campaign he talked a lot about how proud he was of the enemies he's made as an outspoken freeze-groupie liberal. But last week he probably earned more political enemies among his allies than he'll be able to count after another 10 years of pushing the freeze. And that's if he's reelected. "Put it this way," said political consultant Michael Goldman, who is working for one of the candidates running for Markey's congressional seat...
More succinctly, one young campaign worker who has toiled in Markey campaigns for ten years, said quietly at last week's press conference, "Ed Malarkey, that's his new name...
...AMIDST all this justified condemnation, it's worthwhile to note a couple of sad things about Markey's exit things that seem to have been missed in the rush to bury a man who didn't know how to go about screwing...
First of all, Markey was a very good candidate, and the weird thing was that he know it and mentioned it when he quit. He noted that he had raized the most money and had probably corralled the most delegates, but, he kept chanting, this was a "personal decision." Markey does deserve the criticism that he wears his greasy ambition on his sleeve, and that he is something of a political light-weight, but there's no denying that he has also done a fine job of shaking up the Washington establishment on the freeze issue. It was Markey...
...Markey did bring important issues into the campaign, and his prickly, slightly, obnoxious presence challenged the others to say something definite. Without him. Shannon is likely to emphasize his Washington experience, and Kerry to bank on statewide name recognition. Not too exciting Markey might not have made the best senator, but he raised an important issue as a standout in a field of nearly identical liberals--just what sort of leadership is each candidate going to provide? When Markey quit, the issue evaporated, and the campaign will be that much weaker for his absence...