He wasn't a joke.
He was typical. Your basic Nixon sleazebag Vegas houseboy, and a crooked and corrupt politician to boot. Didn't he go to prison, or did he pardon out?
But he sure showed those nattering nabobs of negativism a thing or two. For a while there he was running back and forth, all assholes and elbows, like the little Dutch boy trying desperately to fill all the holes in the dyke, but the leaks kept multiplying faster than he could stuff body parts in them to plug them up. He would have fit right in on these boards.