Posted on 05/11/2007 9:24:04 AM PDT by jedward
Edited on 05/16/2007 1:16:05 PM PDT by Lead Moderator. [history]
Hillarudy or Rootyhill?
freepmail, if you haven’t seen it yet.
“but want to see the same fervor on this site”
I really truely understand that quote above. If some of the energy I’ve seen wasted with some posters were spent on supporting and promoting a candidate of their choice, the sky is the limit. Many will come at you if you do this. I’ve taken hits, cuts, gashes and a couple of black eyes, but I’m not stopping. There are some damn good Conservative Candidates in the line-up and there’s no reason why anyone who tries to thwart my efforts could just as easily spend their time promoting a candidate elsewhere.
I really do understand what you want to see. I would like to see the same, as far as the fever and energy goes. It comes from within, so people must rise to the challange.
I was complaining to my wife the other nite how there is no detectable political difference between Hillary and Rudy, when I got the Hillar(ud)y idea.
But Rootyhill works for me too!
Oh, there is one big difference. Giuliani looks better in a dress. ;-)
5/11/07 - HOUSTON) - Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani on Friday urged conservatives to look past his support for abortion rights, arguing that his divergence on the issue should not disqualify him from being the party’s GOP nominee.
The former New York City mayor has struggled in the last week to explain his personal opposition to terminating pregnancies with his long record of favoring a woman’s right to choose. He has defended his positions — and some say contradictory comments — on late-term abortion, public funding for abortions and the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion.
“Everybody’s got to make a choice,” Giuliani told about 500 students, faculty and staff crammed into an auditorium at Houston Baptist University. “How important are the differences and how important are the other issues we may agree on.”
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http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=local&id=5295978
Thompson can (and will) get the nomination and win the general election. Likewise, he's the only one who I could see have "coattails" large enough to return GOP control to the House. (Asking for the Senate in 2008 is a pipe-dream, though, when looking at the seats up for grabs.)
So...who are you supporting in the Republican primary, Spiff...or do you just go after the ones that you don’t like?
If these turkeys would stay out of the threads that are put up specifically to organize efforts to "swiftboat" Rudy Giuliani, and if they would stop trying to disrupt them, we'd all get along just fine. There's thousands of threads these guys can post to, they don't need to be in here distracting from what people are trying to do.
This is the second thread that was posted on this specific effort because the first one was so successfully disrupted by the Rudybots - a number of which saw themselves get banned over their behavior.
If someone came onto Free Republic to disrupt our efforts and to support Obama or Hillary, they'd get the same treatment. Supporting liberals and disrupting conservative efforts here is not a healthy activity.
“If he is not your preferred candidate, just vote for someone you like better.
You can’t beat somebody with nobody.”
Yep. See 2004 election cycle, and ‘Anybody But Bush’.
“because the first one was so successfully disrupted by the Rudybots”
Exactly.
My point is that Hillary scares me far more than Rudy does & I’d expect that most Republicans & conservatives would feel the same way...even if they’re one-issue voters...
Physical threats?
“Do you actually think Hunter, Brownback, Thompson, Paul and the rest can get the nomination, much less win the Election? “
Let me clarify that. I mistakenly put Thompson in that list of names. That was an oversight.
I actually believe that right now, there are three viable GOP nominees in the running, Giuliani, Thompson and Romney.
I don’t think the others, even, McCain, have any prospects of winning.
But I would vote for any of the current GOP candiates. They are ALL preferable to what the Democrats will put up.
ROANOKE, Va. - The maker of the powerful painkiller OxyContin and three of its current and former executives pleaded guilty Thursday to misleading the public about the drug’s risk of addiction, a federal prosecutor and the company said.
Purdue Pharma L.P., its president, top lawyer and former chief medical officer will pay $634.5 million in fines for claiming the drug was less addictive and less subject to abuse than other pain medications, U.S. Attorney John Brownlee said.
The plea agreement settled a national case and came two days after the Stamford, Conn.-based company agreed to pay $19.5 million to 26 states and the District of Columbia to settle complaints that it encouraged physicians to overprescribe OxyContin.
“With its OxyContin, Purdue unleashed a highly abusable, addictive, and potentially dangerous drug on an unsuspecting and unknowing public,” Brownlee said. “For these misrepresentations and crimes, Purdue and its executives have been brought to justice.”
Purdue spokesman James Heins objected to any suggestion of ties between the plea agreement and the abuse of OxyContin.
“We promoted the medicine only to health-care professionals, not to consumers,” he said in a statement.
Privately held Purdue learned from focus groups with physicians in 1995 that doctors were worried about the abuse potential of OxyContin. The company then gave false information to its sales representatives that the drug had less potential for addiction and abuse than other painkillers, the U.S. attorney said.
Ken Jost of the Justice Department’s Office of Consumer Litigation said this case should put pharmaceutical companies on notice that they won’t be able to get away with breaking the law to make a profit.
“The things that they plot in their boardrooms, the things that they do behind closed doors will not stay behind closed doors,” Jost said. “We have the people, we have the resources. We’ll take the time and we’ll take the effort to find out what they did and how they did it.”
Purdue Pharma said it accepted responsibility for its employees’ actions.
“During the past six years, we have implemented changes to our internal training, compliance and monitoring systems that seek to assure that similar events do not occur again,” the company said in a news release.
OxyContin, a trade name for oxycodone, is a time-release painkiller that can be highly addictive. Designed to be swallowed whole and digested over 12 hours, the pills can produce a heroin-like high if crushed and then swallowed, snorted or injected.
From 1996 to 2001, the number of oxycodone-related deaths nationwide increased fivefold while the annual number of OxyContin prescriptions increased nearly 20-fold, according to a report by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. In 2002, the DEA said the drug caused 146 deaths and contributed to another 318.
The U.S. attorney said the guilty pleas were entered Thursday morning in U.S. District Court in Abingdon, about 135 miles southwest of Roanoke. In an unusual move, Brownlee said, company chief executive officer Michael Friedman, general counsel Howard Udell and former chief medical officer Paul Goldenheim each pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of misbranding the drug. Of the total fine, $34.5 million was levied on those three.
The fines will be distributed to state and federal law enforcement agencies, the federal government, federal and state Medicaid programs, a Virginia prescription monitoring program and individuals who had sued the company. About $5 million will go toward a six-year company program to monitor compliance with the agreement.
When he took office in 2001, Brownlee said, his office was handling a number of cases related to OxyContin abuse, including crimes by addicts seeking to support their habits and arrests of street dealers and even pharmacists and physicians.
“But it always seemed, I think to me and to the investigators, that there was more,” he told a news conference.
Investigators from a number of state and federal agencies worked together on an investigation of Purdue Pharma and began to subpoena company records in 2002, Brownlee said.
“From these millions of records, they picked out probably 300 to 500 documents and pieced together a case,” he said.
The Food and Drug Administration was part of the investigation. A spokesman for Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said the agency had not acted on a citizen petition Blumenthal’s office filed more than three years ago. The petition raised concerns about misbranding and called for stronger warnings and fuller disclosure about OxyContin’s dangers.
Kim Rice of the FDA told the news conference that over time the agency has mandated increasingly stronger warnings on labels about OxyContin’s abuse potential.
Purdue Pharma recruited high-profile help in 2002 as the nation’s number of oxycodone-related deaths rose dramatically. It hired former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s firm, Giuliani Partners, to try to prevent smuggling and abuse of the drug.
“Purdue has demonstrated its commitment to fighting this problem in launching practical and novel solutions including the provision of tamper-resistant prescription pads to over 10,000 physicians and implementing its highly acclaimed `Painfully Obvious’ teen education program,” Giuliani said at the time.
http://www.wishtv.com/global/story.asp?s=6499452
pookie. Please stay on topic here. People are posting good information as the thread is intended for.
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