OK. So it wasn't alcohol, it was DRUGS. Yeah, that makes it better.
2. Patches has had many run ins with the law including an addiction to Cocaine, an assault on a woman on a yacht, numerous car accidents and other assorted adventures.
3. They could have pictures of him drinking Jack Daniels straight from the bottle while doing lines of coke off the ass of an 18 year old male prostitute, it will make no difference. His State of Rhode Island will vote him back to Washington again and again.