Weiner The Weiner Wants To Be Mayor

Is Anthony Weiner, the disgraced Congressman from New York, nuts or will New Yorkers vote for a man best known for showing semi-nude body to someone he did not know? We hope not. If he does win, it will indicate to us that American  infatuation with Dancing With The Stars and other reality shows has moved into mainline politics! Conservative Tom Weiner Announces Candidacy for New York City Mayor in Video Anthony D. Weiner, once a rising star of New York politics whose career cratered over revelations of his sexually explicit life online, announced an improbable bid on Wednesday for the job he has long coveted: mayor. After a rocky re-emergence into public life over the last few weeks, marked by circus like scenes of tabloid photographers chasing him onto the subway, Mr. Weiner opted to declare his candidacy from the safe remove of a video. His candidacy, fueled by a $5 million war chest and a determination to resurrect his public standing, promises to immediately disrupt a wide open Democratic primary race populated by several lesser-known candidates. But it is beset by heavy baggage, starting with the deep ambivalence of voters to whom Mr. Weiner lied two years ago, when he indignantly denied that he had sent an image of himself in his underwear to a college student in Seattle.