From the Nixon Watergate tapes, a discussion of a prospective nominee for Secretary of the Navy - Nixon: “Hell, any ******* can do that job; we even had JOHN WARNER do it”. Also, a statement from the Democratic State Chairman in Virginia the day after the 1976 election, when JOHN WARNER narrowly beat Dem Andy Miller on the strength of the celebrity of his then-wife Elizabeth Taylor - “well, the good citizens of Virginia just elected the three biggest boobs in the State to the Senate”. I am in agreement with both Nixon and the Dem official.
Warner won in 1978 and hardly had opposition thereafter.