Wiener Weiner Mayor, Wiener!

The Post interviews a bunch of Weiner backers who go there:

Voters in Anthony Weiner’s congressional district yesterday roasted the dropout Democrat over his decision to quit the mayoral race rather than take on Fernando Ferrer in a runoff.

“Get back in there,” fumed Johanna Cassidy, a bartender at the Austin Ale House in Kew Gardens. “He can’t just sit down and give up. Stop acting like a wiener!”

Of course Weiner’s supporters were just being principled:

Cassidy of Rego Park said she backed Weiner because he looked like a “regular guy” and because she wanted somebody who would take on Mayor Bloomberg “so I could smoke and have a drink at the same time.”

And let us not forget what’s most fun about this story, the Post-friendly adolescent humor:

The outrage prompted a stream of not-so-good-natured wisecracks that played off the 41-year-old congressman’s name.

“It was wrong! His name should be Oscar Meyer,” said Lou Valentine, 67, a Democrat.

Weiner maintained that it would be unwise and wasteful to go through with the runoff:

Weiner defended his decision to withdraw even though city elections officials say they are legally obligated to stage a runoff in two weeks, costing taxpayers as much as $12 million.

“It’s preposterous,” Weiner said of a runoff. “If the Board of Elections has to go through the kabuki dance on an election that cost us all $10 million that would be a shame.”

Weiner said his lawyers are busy trying to help avoid “a wasteful expenditure of money.”

“It’s not going to happen. Even my mother is not going to vote for me if there is a runoff,” quipped Weiner, who insisted he made the decision to quit on his own.