Chief, don't you figure that the folks in his district have had years and years to admire his single-mindedness on constitutional issues and see him like the beloved crazy cousin that is always taking care of the old widowed aunts that everyone else is too busy to care for and love him for his careful concern while putting up with his farting at the picnic table every year?
The beloved crazy cousin thing lasts until the first soldier, marine, airman, sailor, coast guardsman comes home to be buried.
That's all you got?