He's a ticket puncher who jumped through all the right hoops to be part of the power crowd, that's all. It's a lie that "they" "hate" him for his principles or even "hate" him at all. "They" know he's a lawyer so he can always rephrase or tap dance around a principle.
The bigger dogs want to smack him down for trying to break in line ahead of others who have jumped through all the hoops and gotten there first, that's all. As soon as he rolls over in submission a few more times like he did on TPA and the Ryan budget they'll let him up and give him an appropriately sized share.
Even the feral dogs in DC seldom go for an outright kill of a submissive fellow feral dog. Only the dogs that try to protect a few of the sheep or who want to clean the easy to feed on carrion out of the halls of Congress are killed.
The sad fact is that Ted is cut from the same cloth as John Edwards, just with a different set of hoops he's jumped though because there's less competition among lawyers to go for the Republican side of the coin than there is for the Democrat side of the coin.
Unreal. IIRC, Ted has been married once, unlike some other folks we know...