The whole 'Honorable man' thing is really a crock, he's actually been a vindictive yet ineffectual little shit for quite awhile, really since the whole Keating Five thing. He is more of a knife in the back kind of guy without the ability to make anything work out in the open due to his own half-assed commitment to Conservatism, all the character assassination of Palin after the 2008 election from inside the campaign goes back to surrogates of him and his fat bitch of a daughter, I'm sure. His worldview is stuck in Camelot which may be because he was on ice for all those years in North Viet Nam, but for whatever reason that's where his head's at.