It’s time for Anthony Weiner to pull out.
The drumbeat demanding Weiner’s exit from the mayor’s race intensified yesterday following his admission of at least three online affairs after he resigned from Congress in 2011 over a sexting scandal.
“Weiner should withdraw. We need to hear no more about penises and sex pictures,” declared Hazel Dukes, president of the NAACP’s state chapter.
“I like decency and order. He’s turned the election into a freak show. This has become a circus. We need to get back to issues.”
Her call for Weiner to get out was especially stinging because the naughty ex-congressman — who used the name “Carlos Danger” when exchanging X-rated texts and pictures — is getting relatively strong support in the black community.
The latest Marist/NBCNY/Wall Street Journal poll showed 20 percent of black voters backing Weiner, but only 12 percent of whites.
Baruch College Professor Doug Muzzio can’t imagine Weiner surviving the latest scandal.
“A rational person would drop out. But this is Anthony Weiner. He operates under different psychological imperatives than the rest of us,” Muzzio said.
He said Weiner’s lack of candor about his tawdry addiction is what is most damaging about the new revelations. Weiner lied about his perverted sexual behavior when he was a congressman, and he has done so again, the professor said.
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“Anthony Weiner is unbalanced. His first inclination is to lie and deceive. There’s something seriously wrong with him. Do you want him to be the mayor?” he asked.
While Weiner’s wife, Huma Abedin, is standing behind him, the head of the National Organization for Women slammed his reckless behavior as she endorsed City Council Speaker Christine Quinn for mayor.
“I just don’t think that he’s going to be the next mayor. I don’t think we’ve got anything to be afraid of,” said NOW national president Terry O’Neil.
“Clearly, Mr. Weiner does have a problem. And his behavior is sexist, let’s be clear. It is not respectful of women as a class.”
Even one of Abedin’s pals is saying it’s time for Weiner to go.
Financier and Quinn adviser Steve Ratner, who manages Mayor Bloomberg’s considerable financial portfolio and says he’s a friend of Huma’s, predicted Weiner wouldn’t even make it to the Sept. 10 Democratic primary.
“What has happened here is beyond the pale, over the edge,” Ratner said on MSNBC. “This race is not going to include Anthony Weiner when this is all over.”