You know what bothers me most about the Romney dog on roof story?

[Ohio Dem]

Well, what he did to that dog should disqualify him, obviously. Other than that though, he told that story to a reporter to try to seem normal!. It isn't like an investigative reporter drug in up. He volunteered it! He thought it would make him seem like a regular bloke. He's such a regular guy, that he once strapped his dog to the roof of his car for a twelve hour trip. When it shit itself in terror, he pulled over and sprayed the car (and the dog) off. And continued on the trip. "See how normal I am?"

[pa28]

1. As far as I know that's not quite the way it happened.

Apparently his son told the story to a journalist and another reporter followed up on the question during a later interview.

Mitt defended himself by pointing out the dog was in an air tight case.

[Ohio Dem]

4. Oh, was it his son?

My issue with the story remains. It was still a "he's a regular guy" attempt.

[pa28]

16. Oh yeah. The idea stands.

Look at his 'who let the dogs out' moment or the time went to a diner and tried to make a joke about the waitress pinching his butt. Whenever he's among working people he clearly wants to get the he(hockey sticks) out of there.

In contrast there always seems to be plenty of oxygen in the room when he's among bankers, millionaire donors or lobbyists. Take a look at his fundraising speech hosted by the Papa John's guy. He's home!

[WingDinger]

10. That too, but it was to illustrate his no emotion style of crisis resolution

Oh, and now both Mitt and his wife say Seamus LOVED it up there. And Mitt says every chance he got he would scurry on the roof of the car. To get up there. Can anyone here imagine that he let the dog with sharp claws scurry up on his car? He didnt let the dog in the car because he didnt like dog stuff in the car, smell or otherwise. Or else he would have put the luggage in a cartop carrier. Like EVERYONE ELSE who is a regular guy.

[hfojvt]

23. not that it should matter

but the first source of the story in print, said it was a "family friend" and not any of the kids.

http://dailyhowler.blogspot.com/2012/03/walter-and-david-and-rush-and-gail.html

"For the record, neither Tagg nor any other Romney was my original source for the anecdote. Collins and others have pushed this silly line to suggest how tone-deaf the Romney brood must be..."

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

2. Makes you wonder what kind of other weird things he's done

and hasn't volunteered to tell us about. Good observation.

[Ohio Dem]

6. Actually, I wonder if it is even true.

You never know with this bunch of out of touch psychopaths.

[Art_from_Ark]

3. Maybe he's been watching too many episodes of The Simpsons

That sounds exactly like something that Homer Simpson-- and just about every other adult in Springfield-- would do.

[Ohio Dem]

5. Exactly!

He thinks that is something you or I could relate to.

[Art_from_Ark]

8. My idea for a Simpsons episode

Mitt Romney comes to town. After a couple of speeches that focus on the dog story, everyone in Springfield starts driving around town with a dog on their roof, some in creates, others just tied on the roof with rope. All the while, the dogs are barfing on everyone and everything in their path. Later at Moe's Bar, Homer raises a glass of Duff to his newfound pal Mitt, "the presidential candidate you'd want to have a beer with", and to his novel way of transporting pooches.

[Earth_First]

17. Matt, is.that you...?

Brilliant!

[MADem]

7. The son told the story, but Mitt GLEEFULLY filled in the details--the idea was to show him as a

decisive, take-charge, no-nonsense kind of guy who can stay on schedule even if the dog is shitting in terror down the back window of the station wagon. And how does he take charge? He hoses down the car and the dog in the crate, and keeps going--so here's a dog, terrified, with shit all over its poor hindquarters, who is soaking wet and sitting in a pool of water and shit.

I'd say the ANIMAL here was the asshole driving the car.

The dog carrier could hardly be "airtight" if shit could stream so freely from it.

Of course, we know a dog will not crap where they live--that dog had to be frightened within an inch of its life. No wonder it ran away after they got to Canada.


Here's what I don't get. Surely they had LUGGAGE for their little holiday in Canada. Why did they put the luggage in the car, and the dog on the roof? Why not put the LUGGAGE on the roof, and the damn dog in the car?

It just shows what a clueless, inhumane asshole the guy is. You don't put your frigging family companion on the roof of a car going seventy MPH.

[PearliePoo2]

9. excellent synopsis

The guy has a screw loose, his weird little laugh..heh..heh..heh and his wife, well fuck her too, she allowed him to do it.
If my partner tried to do such an atrocious thing we'd be "splits-ville" right there and then.

[MADem]

13. She'll do anything for Mittsy--she even sent donations to Planned Parenthood and signed the checks!

That was when he was trying to claim that he was "pro-choice." See, the people of MA wouldn't tolerate a fundy pro-lifer as governor.

[coalition_unwilling]

11. There's even some suggestion that Mitt drove the car through the car wash with the

crate still attached to the top of the car (and Seamus inside). If true, that suggests that Mitt should be under arrest for animal cruelty and certainly NOT THE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE OF ONE OF THE TWO MAJOR POLITICAL PARTIES, FOR FUCK'S SAKE. What the fuck is wrong with these Republicans? Do they have a black hole where their soul is supposed to be?

[MADem]

12. I heard he just hit the car and dog with ice cold water from a hose at a service station.

He didn't drive the car through a car wash.

The cold garden hose water is bad enough, though. I don't think he removed the dog from the crate--just turned on the hose and knocked the shit off the car.

[coalition_unwilling]

14. That poor dog. When you add this story (confirmed by Mitt himself) to

the bullying adminstered to John Lauber (non-denial denial by Mitt), a fairly chilling portrait emerges. I don't have a professional background in psychology\psychiatry, but it is really fucking creepy.

[MADem]

21. I don't think any of us need a professional background to do a Fristian forensic diagnosis!

Add to all that his comments about how he liked firing people....and you've got a right heartless bastard on your hands!

[Ohio Dem]

15. Yep.

All you said was true. Creepy. And he thought the story made him seem like a normal, working person. What a weirdo. It is a story that shows how out of touch he is with regular people. Never mind his cruel treatment of the dog, which is bad enough.

[newfie11]

18. whatever happened to that dog?

Did he leave it there or did it have to ride on the roof to go home? Never heard. The man is a puke!!!!

[MADem]

22. Seamus ran away, according to an off-the-record admission by one of his overprivileged sons.

His sister claims she took the dog in, but that might be a "Fido went to live on a farm" story....

http://politicker.com/2012/01/did-mitt-romneys-dog-seek-asylum-in-canada/

Mitt Romney may not have told the whole truth about the scandalous tale of his Irish Setter, Seamus, being strapped to the roof of his car during a 12-hour family road trip to Canada. According to a trusted Politicker tipster, two of Mr. Romney’s sons had an off-record conversation with reporters where they revealed the dog ran away when they reached their destination on that infamous journey in 1983.

Mr. Romney’s wife, Ann, has previously said Seamus survived the trip and went on to live to a “ripe old age.” As of this writing, Mr. Romney’s campaign has not responded to multiple requests for comment on this story.

Seamus’ story first came to light in a 2007 Boston Globe profile of Mr. Romney that told the story of the voyage to his father’s cottage in the gated Beach O’ Pines community on Ontario’s Lake Huron....


The Globe initially presented the story as an example of Mr. Romney’s “emotion-free crisis management,” but the incident has enraged many animal lovers and caused many issues on the campaign trail. Seamus inspired an attack ad from Mr. Romney’s Republican rival Newt Gingrich, a “Google bomb” coining “Romney” as a verb meaning “to defecate in terror,” a mocking Tweet from President Barack Obama’s advisor, David Axelrod, and, of course, an angry statement from PETA.

It's wonderful to have inherited a family summer home--and what a great thing especially when you have a family of five kids! But damn--in a GATED community? Who has a summer cottage in a GATED community? These people are so far removed from even the "well off" that it's unbelievable.

Anyway, that's where we're left--the dog hauled ass as soon as he was able...and who could blame him, poor thing? He probably thought it was a better bet to take his chances with Canadian wildlife than have to endure the torture of a return trip!

[newfie11]

26. Thank you for the info

I can only hope Seamus for a more deserving owner before he died of starvation. Romney is a complete ass!

[madokie]

19. You know what bothers me about mit robme

its mitt romney himself

[Egalitarian Thug]

20. Yup, pure socio/psychopath.

Unfortunately many Americans view this kind a mental illness as a sign of strength.

[Bake]

24. What? Doesn't EVERYBODY do that?

Oh, wait. No, they don't.



Bake

[napkinz]

25. Shame On U.S.

[PearliePoo2]

27. The "Seamus Shuttle"!

(Rest in peace Seamus...you couldn't help it the Romneys are such unfeeling, cold-hearted cretins.)