infidelity was not a deal breaker when electing Mayor Willie Brown twice to office. Nor did South Carolinians care about Mark Sanford's really tacky introduction of his mistress-turned-fiancee to his children at a campaign event.

But in Anthony Weiner's case, the media has decided en masse that it's time for him to go back into hiding, lest he offend their puritanical outlook. Every single Sunday show raised the issue, and like David Axelrod on Meet The Press above, unanimously agreed that it was time for him to go quietly into that good night. The pressure is clearly building, and Weiner's campaign manager quit last night as well, just adding yet more fuel to that fire.

But here's the thing: it's not up to Axelrod, or George Will on This Week, or Peter King on State of the Union or any other Washington denizen to decide the campaign is over. That's only a decision to be made by the candidate himself or better, by the voters of New York City.

Or is democracy that difficult a concept for Villagers to grasp?