AZGOP TO CLINTON: AMERICA NEEDS LEADERSHIP, NOT HATE

Phoenix, AZ—State Republican Party Communications Director Brett Mecum called on Democrat Presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton to clean up her campaign, after New York’s junior U.S. Senator resorted to name-calling after losing a vote in Washington and referred to Vice President Dick Cheney as “Darth Vader.”

“In our next president, America needs leadership, not hate,” Mecum said. “Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton may find it funny to engage in the politics of personal destruction, or she may be pathologically incapable of keeping her cool when she’s upset. In either case, her hateful ways of campaigning against both Democrat and Republican opponents are counterproductive to elevating the political discourse in America.

“In this campaign alone, Hillary Rodham Clinton has returned nearly one million dollars in tainted money raised for her campaign by a fugitive from justice who swindled millions from innocent Americans in investment schemes,” Mecum said. “She attacks her opponents without regard to any standard of decency, as if they were personal enemies rather than candidates for office.”

At a town hall meeting in New York, according to the Politico online news/blog site, Senator Clinton bemoaned the defeat of a Democrat attempt to restrict troop deployments in Iraq with a vitriolic personal attack on the vice president. "You can always tell when the Republicans are getting restless, because the vice president’s motorcade pulls into the Capitol, and Darth Vader emerges," she said.

“It was perhaps foolish to think that we might have the opportunity to engage in meaningful debate during this campaign on issues such as Senator Clinton’s flip-flops on Iraq, Senator Clinton’s fascination with a federal takeover of our health care system, or Senator Clinton’s determination to repeal the last six years of tax cuts which spurred years of economic growth,” said Mecum.

“But instead, we have illicit Hillary fundraising, Hillary’s gutter politics and a complete breakdown of any sort of dignity in the campaign process,” Mecum said. “Sadly, the media will likely dismiss this and report about supposed fractures in the GOP when one Republican sneezes and another neglects to say Gesundheit.”

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