Chaim is onto something with this. At first I disagreed, like others, because I figured Weiners 'ego' was so big that he had no shame. But once again voices are coming out saying he should bow out gracefully rather than disgrace New York with his disgusting antics.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/07/24/weiner-scandal-quit-mayoral-race/2582353/The pressure is increasing on former congressman Anthony Weiner to drop out of the New York City mayor's race after his acknowledgment of another round of lewd online exchanges with women.
Weiner held a news conference Tuesday admitting that he continued to engage in inappropriate online chats even after he was forced to resign from Congress in 2011 because he had sent graphic messages — including lewd photos of himself — to women via Twitter.
But, with his wife by his side, Weiner said the bad behavior was behind him and he intends to stay in the mayor's race. Ten days ago, polls showed him narrowly leading the race for the Democratic nomination over City Council Speaker Christine Quinn.
After his press conference, major New York newspapers called for Weiner to quit the race.
The New York Times wrote in an editorial, "The serially evasive Mr. Weiner should take his marital troubles and personal compulsions out of the public eye, away from cameras, off the Web and out of the race for mayor of New York City."
The Wall Street Journal said Weiner "ought to drop out of the New York City mayor's race simply because of what he's forced his wife to endure. Watching the elegant Huma Abedin stand next to her man Tuesday as he explained his latest sexually charged online exchanges was painful for a normal human being to watch. Mr. Weiner is not a normal human being."