Following the many jibes made at their party and candidates during Hawaii Democrats’ convention over the weekend, the Hawaii GOP has issued more press release responses.

Here’s an excerpt from Lenny Klompus, deputy campaign manager for the Linda Lingle Senate Committee, responding to Dan Inouye’s negative take on Lingle:

In light of his past service, it’s especially disappointing to see someone of Sen. Inouye’s stature caving to the pressures of his political party to fall into the typical, divisive, counter-productive, partisan, DC-style attacks that so often dominate the election season. He should know better than anyone that Hawaii’s voters are tired of the same old political gamesmanship that too often dominates useful dialogue in the public arena. …

And when you factor in Sen. Inouye’s glossing over the facts of our current governor’s worst in the nation approval ratings, in the 30s, along with his continuous loss of large numbers of cabinet directors and other senior-level staff, our senior Senator’s speech to his political party faithful becomes that much more disconcerting. And, his misrepresentation of Governor Linda Lingle’s positions on the issues, as well as her time in office is a sad commentary on how far into the abyss partisan politics has fallen as we get closer to election day.

Meantime, here’s excerpts from a press release issued by Hawaii Republicans following Mazie Hirono’s speech attacking you-know-who:

Hirono’s tired, old smears were the latest distraction from candidates and national party operatives like keynote speaker and secretary of the Democratic National Committee, Alice Gremond, who used similar scare tactics, painting the party’s opposition as “diabolical” and “venal.” Throughout the convention, national operatives and the party’s elite stated time and again that they need to keep Hawaii’s open U.S. Senate seat as a “safe” Democrat seat. …

The people of Hawaii are not surprised by the name-calling and caustic attacks from Rep. Hirono since she didn’t take one minute of her eight minute tirade to talk about her platform. It is quite sad that this is best the Democrat Party can offer the people of Hawaii.