There’s a lot of dem propaganda about how wonderful HHH was and a lot of wishful thinking about how he could have won, seems a weird guy to idolize to me. Funny, at the time he was not who the hippy idiots who worship now wanted, he was the choice of the party bosses.
Well, the general consensus was that HHH was a likeable guy on both sides of the aisle (recall the usually unflappable Jesse Helms telling the story of Humphrey’s final battle with cancer and he was crying like a baby - not exactly something one would do over say, Hillary or Manbearpig). Seeing him thoroughly enjoying himself at the un-PC Dean Martin Roasts showed a bit of his true character.
Alas, if only he’d been a Conservative...