"Montreal gay pol's drug use increases popularity"

Nick Gillespie | November 11, 2005

Montreal gay pol's drug use increases popularity
Andre Boisclair is top candidate to lead the Parti Quebecois

By EARTHA JANE MELZER
Friday, November 11, 2005

Gay politician, Andre Boisclair, remains the frontrunner in the race to lead Quebec's separatist party, Parti Quebecois, despite his recent admission that he used cocaine while serving in the provincial parliament.

Parti Quebecois members are scheduled to vote for party leader by telephone Nov. 13 to 15. There are nine candidates. As of mid-September, Boisclair appeared to have twice the support of his nearest rival, Pauline Marois, a former deputy premier who has held several senior cabinet positions.

Whole megillah here.

Tip o' the pixel to Bad Trip author Joel Miller, who asks, "So if Dubya admitted to that coke jones we all know about and how he really 'liked' Karl, do you think his poll numbers would jump too?"

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|11.12.05 @ 6:04PM|#

James,

On Atrios's blog, it's referred to as the BTKWB number: the % of the population that would approve of the job Bush is doing if he were to bind, torture, and kill Wilford Brimley during the Monday Night Football halftime show.

It's estimated at around 35%.

|11.12.05 @ 8:48PM|#

Of course his poll numbers would jump. Admitting to the coke habit and the fact that his sphincter is happiest as a Rovian plaything would be the first bit of unabashed honesty we've heard out of him. If we encouraged him, maybe he'd try it again.

|11.11.05 @ 3:24PM|#

Oooer. I'm seeing a lot of weird accented As, as well as copyright, trademark, and Euro symbols. I'm guessing this came from Word.

Mike|11.11.05 @ 3:27PM|#

His approval rating with me would jump much higher if he legalized it! If it can help a flunking Yale/Harvard student become a millionaire and then president of the USA, just think what it could do to our GDP.

|11.11.05 @ 3:28PM|#

Hmm. I find myself wondering if I could make a little "paste into HTML" widget for Word that converted special character codes into HTML entities. Have to look into that, as I've done MS Office integration, before...

|11.11.05 @ 3:41PM|#

"I find myself wondering if I could make a little 'paste into HTML' widget for Word that converted special character codes into HTML entities."

Or you could just launder the text through Notepad.

|11.11.05 @ 3:44PM|#

Qu�b�cois

|11.11.05 @ 3:46PM|#

Hmm, that does work. Still uses high-ASCII, though, when you'd at least theoretically want to use HTML entities. (Any Mac or other non-Windows users have trouble with that last comment of mine?)

|11.11.05 @ 4:06PM|#

Eric, as a Mac user, I see accents on both e's.

|11.11.05 @ 4:07PM|#

Why don't you ask Mary Mapes?

Hellbound Alleee|11.11.05 @ 4:10PM|#

You have to be high to vote Parti Quebecois.

The Owner's Manual|11.11.05 @ 5:01PM|#

Yes, Bush's poll numbers would increase ... in Quebec.

|11.11.05 @ 6:04PM|#

Kelley - interesting, thanks.

|11.12.05 @ 5:33PM|#

I can't imagine Bush doing anything that would hurt his poll numbers right now. If it was shown that he personally approved the WTC attack on 9/11, 35 percent of the electorate would find a way to justify it as being a necessary evil.

siverko|11.13.05 @ 10:12AM|#

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Enjoyed browsing through the site. Keep up the good work.

|11.13.05 @ 11:55AM|#

That last post was honest as well as substantive. I enjoy reading your thinly disguised ads. Keep 'em coming.

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