Baloney is baloney, no matter how intensely you parse it like another Bill Clinton, Schwartzenegger!!! Americans, and especially Cauleeforneeuns, are extremely patient and long-suffering with most politicians. Even more so if they have a little charisma, charm and the ready ability to admit mistakes and say they're sorry enough, for awhile.
But like Winston Churchill once said... "Americans usually end up doing the right thing, after they've tried ALL the alternatives!" (emphasis added)
The Austrian really didn't need 25 months to do that. For me, he hit the outrage part of the scale in about three months.