Mark Sanford overcame cheating and made a political comeback. Now it appears the same can happen with the disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner. he is running for the Democrat nomination for NYC Mayor and now has a lead according to a new poll.

Democratic mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner has surged ahead of his opponents in a new NBC 4 New York/Wall Street Journal poll, transforming himself in just a few weeks from disgraced has-been to mayoral front-runner.

Weiner, who entered the race two years after resigning his congressional seat amid a sexting scandal, now leads City Council Speaker Christine Quinn in the crowded Democratic primary, setting up a new phase in what could end up being a remarkable political comeback.

Weiner leads Quinn 25 percent to 20 percent among registered Democrats, the poll by Marist found. That’s a flip-flop from the last survey in May, when Quinn, the longtime front-runner, led Weiner 24 percent to 19 percent.

Just as telling is the number of registered New York voters who said they might vote for Weiner. Forty-nine percent said they’d consider it, up from 40 percent two months ago, before Weiner entered the race. Those who said they wouldn’t consider voting for him dropped from 52 percent to 45 percent.

As crazy as this sounds, Anthony Weiner is the most sane one out of the Democrats running for NYC Mayor. The rest are hardcore Marxists or Union patsies. Should Weiner win it will demonstrate the American voting public is very forgiving. Mark Sanford can testify about the forgiveness of the voting public.