Serial sexter Anthony Weiner vaguely acknowledged “embarrassing” personal revelations and vowed to continue his limp mayoral bid, according to a new campaign ad released last night.
With a dramatic score playing lightly in the background, Weiner said his problems don’t compare to day-to-day worries of Gotham’s Average Joe.
“Quit isn’t the way we roll in New York City,” said the shameless pol, wearing a button-down shirt without a tie.
“We fight through tough things. We are a tough city. There are people all around New York City who get up in the morning with a pretty tough day ahead of them and they don’t quit.”
Weiner’s mayoral campaign has been in freefall since last week when he was forced to admit to more sexting episodes since leaving Congress two years ago under a similar cloud.
Despite calls for virtually every corner of the Democratic Party to get out of the race, Weiner vowed to press on.
“But it’s not really about the campaign, and not about the candidates and this is not about me. This is about helping New Yorkers because they understand that this is about them,” Weiner said, in a spot minute-long spot posted on his campaign Web site.
“And this campaign has reminded me about that, again and again, in all kinds of ways.”
And then in his nominal nod to his sexting woes, Weiner said: “You know if someone wants to come out with something embarrassing about you, in your private life, you have to talk about that for a little while.”
In the spot, Weiner claimed voters regularly ask him questions that don’t involve his insatiable need for phone sex and sending X-rated pictures of himself to women.
“But it’s [the campaign] also reminded me that citizens, when they come up to you and they want to talk to you about a situation on their block or at their child’s school or something going on at their job site, that’s what this campaign is about and I’ll never forget that,” Weiner said.
Before the recent campaign bombshell — dropped by his Midwestern sexting kitten Sydney Leathers — Weiner was actually a frontrunner in the crowded Democratic field.
A Quinnipiac University poll released earlier this week showed City Council Speaker Christine Quinn on top with 27 percent.
She was followed by Public Advocate Bill de Blasio at 21 percent, former city Comptroller Bill Thompson with 20 percent, Weiner at 16 percent and Comptroller John Liu with 6 percent.
The winning Democrat needs 40 percent to avoid a runoff.