Patience will prove a lucrative virtue for Anthony Weiner.
The ousted lawmaker won’t have a hard time finding a second career as a lobbyist, teacher, TV personality or — believe it or not — politician, experts told The Post.
The time it takes to go from scandal to forgiveness to forgotten has decreased to less than two years, said Paul Levinson, a professor of communication at Fordham.
“One hundred, 50 or even 20 years ago, Weiner’s career would have been ended,” Levinson said. “Who would have predicted that [Eliot] Spitzer would have had a major anchoring role on CNN at the time he resigned? That took two years, and it could take Weiner even less.”
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Since Weiner lacks a background in business or a law degree, he really has two options, political consultant Joseph Mercurio said.
“Either move into the private sector or do the Spitzer version and go onto TV,” he said. “The third option is to go back into politics, but that’s going to take a lot of rehabilitation first.”
Weiner may have to suffer more public humiliation before he recovers his good name, said Marc Berman of Adweek.
“He needs to go on a show like a ‘Dr. Phil’ and ‘fess up,” he said.
Weiner actually already nabbed one offer yesterday — Hustler honcho Larry Flynt told TMZ he wanted to hire him to work for his Internet group, and would even give him a 20 percent raise over his congressional salary.