Mitt Romney strapped family dog to roof of his car for a 12 hour road trip...

Mitt Romney on strapping dog to roof of car [youtube.com]

Senate Democrats hit Mitt Romney for strapping family dog to roof of car for 12-hour road trip [dailykos.com]

Mitt Romney's Dog Incident Comes Back To Haunt Him (PHOTO) [huffingtonpost.com]

Seamus, the Romney family dog who was strapped to the roof of the Romney's station wagon for 12-hour drive up to Canada. Yes, you read that right: Mitt Romney placed the family dog in a car carrier and strapped him onto the roof of his car. For twelve hours. On the highway. You'll forgive the dog for having dirtied the windows of the car with a bout of diarrhea. Wouldn't you be scared if you were put all alone into a box strapped atop a car going 60 or 70 miles per hour?

Now that Democrats have made brought this up in the campaign, I'm curious to see how the Republican establishment will defend Romney's decision. Maybe they'll accuse Democrats of being Communists for raising questions about Romney's treatment of his dog. Or perhaps they'll fall back on Freedom with a capital "F" and defend the Tenth Amendment right to carry your dog wherever you damn well please. But one thing I'm sure of: They won't defend Romney's judgment. Because on this, there really is no defense.


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is there something to debate here or are we just getting to watch the democrat smear campaign in action?

Quote from SigX : is there something to debate here or are we just getting to watch the democrat smear campaign in action?

What about the false racism claims against Ron Paul?... Then smear campaigns are Ok with the neocons... We're talking about character judgement... If Mitt Romney will strap his dog to the roof of his car for 12 hours... What kind of leader is he?...


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i think the racism claims against RP are equally as stupid.

Romney's Cruel Canine Vacation [time.com]

The reporter intended the anecdote that opened part four of the Boston Globe's profile of Mitt Romney to illustrate, as the story said, "emotion-free crisis management": Father deals with minor — but gross — incident during a 1983 family vacation, and saves the day. But the details of the event are more than unseemly — they may, in fact, be illegal.

The incident: dog excrement found on the roof and windows of the Romney station wagon. How it got there: Romney strapped a dog carrier — with the family dog Seamus, an Irish Setter, in it — to the roof of the family station wagon for a twelve hour drive from Boston to Ontario, which the family apparently completed, despite Seamus's rather visceral protest.

Massachusetts's animal cruelty laws specifically prohibit anyone from carrying an animal "in or upon a vehicle, or otherwise, in an unnecessarily cruel or inhuman manner or in a way and manner which might endanger the animal carried thereon." An officer for the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals responded to a description of the situation saying "it's definitely something I'd want to check out."


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This apperently happened nearly 30 years ago...
Who gives a fark?

Quote from OhNoItsDEVO : This apperently happened nearly 30 years ago... Who give a fark?

The Massachussetts animal cruelty laws...

Quote from NM 156 : The Massachussetts animal cruelty laws...

Yea.....

Quote from OhNoItsDEVO : Yea.....

You'd vote for somebody who strapped his family dog to the roof of his car for 12 hours?...

Quote from NM 156 : You'd vote for somebody who strapped his family dog to the roof of his car for 12 hours?...

If it would help to get Obama out of office, then yes, I'd vote for a man that strapped his family dog to the roof of his car 30 years ago....

If you told me he had done this last week, I'd be a little more concerned.

wow this is SO old - as in campaign 2008 old.

Quote from Dr. J : wow this is SO old - as in campaign 2008 old.

Yep, have to go back to '07 to get the first thread:

http://archive.slickdeals.net/f/5...y-vacation

Quote from OhNoItsDEVO : If it would help to get Obama out of office, then yes, I'd vote for a man that strapped his family dog to the roof of his car 30 years ago.... If you told me he had done this last week, I'd be a little more concerned.

So your judgement of character condones animal cruelty... but you're against somebody like Ron Paul who will end the financial debt slavery the U.S. in....

Quote from NM 156 : So your judgement of character condones animal cruelty... but you're against somebody like Ron Paul who will end the financial debt slavery the U.S. in....

I don't condone animal cruelty in anyway. I love animals. I just don't see what the big deal is about something like this happening 30 years ago.

And I'm actually not against Ron Paul my friend....
I'd love to see him win.