Sure she can.
The perception that she’s Bloomberg’s lackey, for one thing.
Hence my remark to Hello Again about “party hack.” She is one.
She kept paid sick leave off the agenda for three years despite the fact that it had a veto-proof majority. Even Bloomberg, on whose behalf she stonewalled the bill, called her recent change of heart a naked electoral gambit. She folded like a cheap suit on the closure of St. Vincent’s Hospital. She backed Bloomberg to force term limit extensions through the city council. Quinn is the one candidate who has refused to reconsider the very ill-advised marine waste transfer station on the Harlem River.
She had a certain inevitability before Weiner just because the rest of the field is just as weak. But outside of Chelsea and the real estate developers, she is by no means popular around here. She is weak and has a lot of blood in the water.
And how can I forget, Quinn opposed a bill to let people sue in state court alleging racial profiling by police but, in her generosity, would permit such a bill to go to the floor. Stop and frisk is an 800 pound gorilla of an issue at the moment.
The problem with Quinn is that Bloomberg has already served three of his two terms, he doesn’t need a fourth and a fifth.
OK, I’m starting to understand the (some little) love Weiner is getting in this thread.
It’s the Republican nomination for president in 2012 all over again. Quinn is obviously Romney, and I suppose Weiner is Rick Perry. Big flash, rapid flameout.
Interesting choice of words, Maeglin.
I’m not entirely sure you are being complimentary, but thanks. 
This race really is depressing. Any clown gets his ten minutes. If it weren’t so late in the season, Sydney Leathers would probably be on the ballot. My neighborhood politics are a little more aspirational, so I try to take some comfort in that.
I was noticing a double meaning in “big flash.”
I figured. I first tried to see if I could make Weiner out to be the Herman Cain of this race, but I just couldn’t get it to work.
You need to work in a reference to a “Sausage Supreme with Mushroom” somewhere. Pepperoni is too obvious.
It’s not, at least for large cities. Of the twenty largest cities in the country, only two elect their mayors in even-numbered years.
Oh, so apparently only men can just “have a wank”. When women do it, they’re a bunch of skanks. Gotchya.
(BTW, one of these so-called “skank hos” was underage. Stay classy!)
Really? Which skank was underage? Include details.
Also “Free if it doesn’t come in 30 minutes!”
I’m pretty sure that’s wrong. Genette Cordova was 21, and even if she had 20 at the time, calling her “underage” is pushing it.
Nope. Any run-of-the-mill golddigger would stand by a good person/winner, for her own self-interest. It takes a wonderful woman to stand by a big loser turd, in spite of himself.
I could believe that. I met her several times years ago while she was working for Hillary, well before I knew who she was. She is very formidable, not the kind of person who needs to ride someone else’s coattails.
The Clintons were on vacation and I was staying at the same resort. We actually got to talk with them quite a bit, and my dad ended up shooting a few holes with Bill. They are very approachable and are both incredibly funny in person.
Keeping up the digression a bit… What do people want of the Humas and Hillaries of the world? Throw all his stuff in the front yard and set it on fire? Call a news conference announcing you’re dumping his sorry ass and calling some celeb lawyer who’ll take him for all he’s worth? Shoot him in the dick?
I’d say that all depends on whether the Bill/Anthony in question is a Dem or a Pub. IOKIARDI.