He is a grade AA, blue-ribbon jerk. But he keeps his support in the area. He is a neo-con Democrat, with a strong German accent, lots and lots and lots of $$$ from The Party and a base that wouldn't NOT vote for him for any reason on the earth.
Basically, he will be there until he croaks.
I thought he had lied about escaping Hitler......can't remember the whole story, but something was talked about when he told Craig Livingstone to commit Suicide like Admiral Boorda did.