Hawaii's had to deal with the idiotic hippie for the last 30 years. Abercrombie did helped shape my political outlook though... I remember the day that we ran into him wandering around town. A kid at the time, I thought that he was quite literally a dirty bum and my parents corrected me, sighing, "Somehow he's our Congressman." I was appalled.
I had hoped that his departure from the house would have been through an electoral defeat. Oh well.
Is he quitting his job? Gee no mention in this article of any of the things they said about Palin when she quit.
I believe your initial thoughts as a kid were correct (”I thought that he was quite literally a dirty bum and my parents corrected me...”).
I would have liked to have seen him thrown out on his a$$ like the rest of them are going to be.