Weiner Won't Pull Out

Weiner to Stay in Mayor’s Race as New Allegations Emerge

That Anthony Weiner is good. He's been (preemptively) acknowledging that more inappropriate photos and sexting exchanges were liable to emerge, and now they have.He's been saying it for so long, in fact, that I almost didn't bother reading past the headline of today's story -- that he actually was carrying on like this SIX MONTHS AFTER HE RESIGNED. While I realize he had plenty of, um, time on his hands then, this is just completely ridiculous -- and utterly reckless --and proves that he cannot be trusted again. Naturally, the egomaniac still will not resign. It takes quite a bit for me to be flabbergasted, but I'll admit it: I'm flabbergasted. 

The New York Times agrees:

At some point, the full story of Anthony Weiner and his sexual relationships and texting habits will finally be told. In the meantime, the serially evasive Mr. Weiner should take his marital troubles and personal compulsions out of the public eye, away from cameras, off the Web and out of the race for mayor of New York City.

Mr. Weiner, who resigned from Congress two years ago after sending lewd messages and photos of his crotch to women he had not met, was forced to revisit the issue on Tuesday, and so were we all. A Web site called The Dirty had another woman’s story, another round of sex texts, and another picture of Mr. Weiner’s penis. The startling news was that this new episode apparently took place last summer, only a few months before Mr. Weiner was to begin another run at public office. The marital trauma that Mr. Weiner and his wife, Huma Abedin, had said was behind them was not as far behind as we thought.

Mr. Weiner says he is staying in the mayoral race. To those who know his arrogance and have grown tired of the tawdry saga he has dragged the city into, this is not surprising.