How is Crate-gate going to impact Mitt in the general election?

[jberryhill]

6. Some dumbshit thing he did 25 years ago?

The daily dose of Mitt's dog-on-the-roof stuff reminds me of the "happy giddy dance" over McCain's wife's drug diversion.

People take trips on planes with their dogs crated in airplane cargo holds every day. What do they think it is like in there for the dog? Do they think it's warm and lighted? That the dogs get meal service and pillows?

There are places where seeing a dog in the bed of a pickup truck is a daily thing.

Yes, it was a stupid thing. Yes, the dog was distressed. I'd never do a thing like that to my dog.

But, really, every day for 279 days we are going to be on about 25 years ago he put a dog crate on his roof?

Tell me what you think of this guy. A couple of months ago, I was booked on a flight to Frankfurt. In the waiting area, I met a soldier who was deploying to Germany along with his wife. They had two dogs, a pair of golden retrievers, and they found it was less expensive to ship the dogs via a cargo carrier that was scheduled to get in after our flight, so they could pick up the dogs on arrival. Our flight was maintenance delayed and ended up cancelled. It was a good six hours after our scheduled departure before we took off. So, by the time we got to Germany, these two dogs had been crated, checked in long before departure, flown cargo to Europe, and sitting in their crates for an additional six hours in the cargo area of the Frankfurt Airport - one of the world's busiest. They'd been in those crates for at least 16 hours away from anyone they knew, in the dark and cold, changing pressure, turbulence, take off, landing, and so on.

It had to be a hell of an ordeal. Was it abuse?