Believe it or not, a guy who showed off his bulging manhood on Twitter is destined to become mayor of New York City. Or at least, that's the bet Michael Wolff is making. The rest of the field vying to replace the "irreplaceable" Michael Bloomberg is made up of "comical figures of such insignificance" that their election is "almost unimaginable," he writes at the Guardian. Bloomberg's contrast from them "is almost from one species to another."
That leaves Weiner, who's a lock not in spite of Underwear-gate, but because of it. The scandal "made him a household name and national figure." He didn't do anything illegal, so this was purely about character, meaning that, if spun deftly, "he might be seen in the public's eye to have grown from low character to a much-improved, even ennobled, one." New York is the capital of the national media; real candidates here need "that ineffable thing called 'story,'" and the wherewithal to sell it. Weiner has both. Click for Wolff's full column. (More Anthony Weiner stories.)
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