Word: quit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most notable recent screw-up was Rep Ed Markey's decision to quit the Massachusetts senate race. But it was a poor screw-up, tarnish on a shining tradition...
...Markey isn't as eloquent as Macbeth, but when he ignominiously quit the senate race last week, he screwed up Elizabethan style, with nobody to blame but himself. That's why in the past week and a half the local press has done nothing but rain down moralistic criticism--swatting Markey's hand and swiping his but at every opportunity. "Markey's Retreat," is the title of this week's Phoenix meditation, in which Markey is condemned as a "suitor scorned--actually not even scorned, but merely afraid of being scorned..." The Boston Herald's headline let the survivors speak...
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...
...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...
...WOULDN'T THINK someone who played that position in a campaign--the tack on the other candidates' seats--would sneak out so cravenly. The latest assertion making its way through the Massachusetts political rumor mill is that Tip O'Neill, who supports Shannon, pressured Markey to quit. That seems out of character for Tip, but if Markey is re-elected and starts receiving favors from the high command, it might be worth redirecting our present scorn...