I think the biggest attraction is that he has been saying the same things for 20yrs as he’s saying today, consistently, right or wrong.
Oh yes - quite consistent. One of the things that shows his consistency is on pork barrel spending and the practice of earmarks in that he gets his pork added into the bills, secures the votes for them to make sure they become law and the bacon comes back to his district, but personally votes against it so he can say he opposed the pork.