It's not so much that he was "only human," but that he pontificated so well about others' "humanity."

If we knew he didn't really *care* about things like fidelity, then nobody would, for example be able to blackmail him. And who knows? Could be that some of those "funds going nowhere" were to people he was asking to keep quiet so he could keep on doing his good deeds as governor (I'm sure he considered them thusly, and I trust others did too).

Power corrupts... absolute power corrupts absolutely.