Dear public: Thank you.
Thank you for finally realizing that Anthony Weiner – his sexts, his tweets, his crotch shots, his massively inflated ego and delusional idea he could run the city – is not good enough for New York.
Thank you for realizing that this is not about a man’s right to a private life.This is not about behavior that is salacious but completely unrelated to one’s ability to do a job.
This is about Anthony Weiner lying – again and again and again. This is about Anthony Weiner being given a second chance from an all-too forgiving public – and blowing it.
This is about Anthony Weiner being a complete distraction from a campaign that has turned into a circus. We should be talking about education, about crime, about homelessness, about pensions, about plans for the next Hurricane Sandy. Or, at the very least, we should be talking about anything but Anthony Weiner’s apparent inability at keeping a cell phone camera away from his pants.
Thanks to Weiner’s imploding campaign – which has now been topped by his spokeswoman, Barbara Morgan, unleashing a barrage of expletives about a former Weiner intern – the public has finally reached its limit of what it is willing to accept from the country’s most notorious Twitter predator.
The former Congressman, who amazingly had risen to the top of the race, has dropped to fourth place, with about 53 percent of likely voters saying he should withdraw from the race, according to a new Marist poll.
This drop comes after Weiner admitted that he sent lewd photos and messages to at least three women after he resigned from Congress. Besides the immediate revulsion ensuing from the the fact that he apparently was hanging out and taking photos of his junk in the bathroom – and then sending them to young women across the country – while his wife was pregnant with their son, there is the fact that Weiner has apparently never been completely forthright with the public about any of this. He won’t even give a straightforward answer as to whether or not he’s still sexting.
Well, Mr.-you-will-never-be-mayor, it’s time to leave. It’s time for you to leave this race so the media can disperse from its constant perch around you and your every move and begin to cover issues that actually matter to us, to our families, to our financial well-being.
It’s time for you to leave and realize there are actually consequences for your actions. What does Anthony Weiner have to look forward to? A son who, when he learns to Google, he will discover that his father could have run a city if he hadn’t been so arrogant as to think the public would put up with anything.
A son who will discover that his father betrayed his mother, and his city, time and again.
Goodbye, Mr. Weiner, and good riddance.
