Romney strapped family Irish Setter to car roof for twelve hour drive from Boston to Ontario.

[Hart2008]

The poor dog was scared to the point of crapping itself.

This guy is like something out of a bad comedy.

What a creep.

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1638065,00.html

[LibDemAlways]

1. He's certainly hasn't done himself any favors with

that revelation. Good.

[Donnachaidh]

2. I thought this was something from the Onion - but this is real?

I hope PETA "dogs" (pun INTENDED) his every step until the primaries. What an ignorant mother-f*cker!

[pnwmom]

26. It's real. The story came directly from the mouth of his son,

and was carried on Boston.com.

Apparently NONE of the Romneys thought it showed anything except Mitt's calmness in the face of crisis.

[SoxFan]

55. That's exactly what I thought!

When the Onion can't keep up with real life, you know you're having a heck of a week.

Nice work, Willard!

[dweller]

3. didn't they make that into a movie?

Vacation-xxx.. or something?

apologies to the Griswolds.
dp

[Donnachaidh]

13. national lampoon's vacation?

And they tied the dog to the BUMPER in that movie.

[MannyGoldstein]

4. I Keep Sayin' It...

Romney is staggeringly dangerous. He's perfectly amoral, and very, very smart.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

30. MG, please tell me HOW he's smart. I really want to know, you are an accurate barometer.

So far, I've not seen evidence of the smarts. Long before he became a candidate, it was evident that MA DU'ers couldn't stand him. Since he's joined the clusterfuck to the White House, I've noticed he's kind of idiotic when asked about his core philosophies.

However, he's the most photogenic of the bunch, R or D. I'm thinking that might be his edge. The intellect, though. I'm just not seeing it. :shrug: MKJ

[MannyGoldstein]

36. Speaking As A Mass DUer Myself...

He was able to pull off getting elected here with a very skillful campaign. And you can see that he's improving with time on the presidential campaign trail (since he has zero principles, it's easy for him to adapt to whatever the electorate wants.)

Like Bush, he was born with a platinum spoon in his mouth - however, unlike Bush, Romney was also very successful in business by being very smart (and again, perfectly amoral).

It's interesting how a number of people in the local media have described interviewing him as creepy - he's affable, but it's clear that you're not talking to the real him - it's almost like your talking to an robot, there's no human connection.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

42. Got it. Thanks!

:toast: MKJ

[Morgana LaFey]

45. another sociopath, then, eh?

got it.

[Tesha]

50. His campaign wasn't skillful.

> He was able to pull off getting elected here with a very skillful campaign.

His campaign for governor wasn't skillful, it simply
exploited him being in the right place at the right
time.

As you recall, Jane Swift moved up from Lieutenant Guv
to Guv when Bush tapped Paul Celluci to become ambassador
to Socialist Canuckistan. But Swift was a consumately bad
politician, abusing the perks of her office while, worse,
not giving the proper blow jobs and obeisance to CLT
(Barbara Anderson and Citizens for Limited Taxation)
and the rest of the Republican power elite (such as it
is in Massachusetts). As a result, the power elite had
the long knives out for her long before the next
gubernatorial election.

Once they politically murdered her and buried the body
back in Western Mass where they felt she belonged in the
first place, they needed a candidate. Up popped Mr. Goodhair,
fresh from his Master of the Olympics experience, with his
carpetbag still in hand and in need of a launching platform
for an eventual Presidential bid. The Republicans in Mass
were more than willing to prop up Mitt the Twit as their
candidate, using his Bain Capital business experience to
prove that he'd be anti-tax, their only real consideration.

Mitt quickly adjusted his political views on women,
gays, abortion, and the like to not be anathema to the
Mass electorate as a whole and thanks to a pretty nasty
Democratic primary battle, was elected Guv.

And the rest, as they say, is history.

Tesha

[calimary]

54. That automaton vibe comes out clearly in his appearances.

Very plastic. Very lifeless. Very calculating. Kinda like cheney. Only younger, taller, and with more hair.

If I WERE going to vote for him (yeah, SURE! Early and often!), the dog story would send me screaming into the night. But I had no intention anyway. That just further verifies why I find him objectionable and untrustworthy, not to mention downright dangerous. A cavalier attitude like that about the family pet - presumably the loved family pet - is indicative of things I don't think he'd want you to know about him. VERY glad this story came out. You'd never have found John Kerry strapping his kids' pet to the top of the frickin' car!!!

[Tesha]

51. Mitt always reminds me of the President of TPC

Mitt always reminds me of the President of TPC (The Phone
Company) in The President's Analyst, played by Pat
Harrington Jr.

You remember him: he's the slick looking smooth-talking
guy who narates the speech delivered to James Coburn,
trying to sell Coburn on "The Cerebrum Communicator",
a little implant that TPC wants to put into everyone's
Bains, err, brains.



Turns out, of course, that like Romney, he's just a
robot who's jacked-in to the TPC computer.

Tesha

[Chomskyite]

59. I'm afraid I haven't gotten the impression he's intelligent

In fact, I'd say he reminds me of Little Carmine from The Sopranos. How smart is it in this political climate to say something like, "I'd DOUBLE the size of Guantanamo!" He seems to me like the perfect, vacuous, lantern-jawed front man, but not much else.

I do think he'll probably win the nomination in the end, however, because the Bushies will finally get behind him with their money train, and because he'll be able to outspend every other candidate (from his own pocket if need be). I think Jeb has already endorsed him, hasn't he?

[Botany]

5. What a piece of scum.

Mitt class of a rat's ass.

[greatauntoftriplets]

6. Yikes!!!!

Irish setters are beautiful dogs, but they are high-strung from overbreeding.

I love them!!!

The dogs in my family...both Brittany spanield...would HATE that.

[eleny]

7. Aren't Setters pretty high strung, too?

How mean.

[madrchsod]

10. i skimmed the article over on huffs

dog shit was all over the back of the car.. yes setters are high strung

[pnwmom]

27. Any dog would be miserable alone in a box on a car, at freeway speeds,

for 12 hours.

[madrchsod]

8. ya got to be really fucking stupid to do this

we do`t need another dumb ass in the whitehouse

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

12. Yes. What you said.

MKJ

[LiberalFighter]

9. I think he and his wife should be strapped on top of a jet

[Canuckistanian]

44. Here's Romney's son on another vacation trip

[City Lights]

11. What a guy!

:wtf:

He's a real problem-solver! :eyes:

I can't understand how he could even consider doing something so cruel. :mad:

[GrumpyGreg]

14. I was horrified when I read this---pure animal abuse!

[BlackHawk706867]

15. The question is, would he not know how cruel that would be for this...

animal? This is one sick F***ing world we live in... The next President of the USA huh, shit if that's the best the Republicans have to offer..... Well, what more is there to say... Someone should strap him to the roof of a car and drive like 1200 miles to see how he likes it.

ww

[SaveElmer]

16. Weird as it sounds...this could really hurt him...

Almost nothing gets people more viscerally angry than treating pets cruelly...

[Poiuyt]

17. He also wanted to make a rodeo as safe for the animals as "humanly possible."

From same article:

As organizer of the Salt Lake City Olympic Games, Romney came under fire from some animal welfare groups for including a rodeo exhibition as part of the Games' festivities. At the time, he told protesters, "We are working hard to make this as safe a rodeo for cowboys and animals as is humanly possible."

[GeorgeGist]

18. Yes AMERICA ...

he really is a MORmON.

[dweller]

20. lol

:spray:

dp

[dave502d]

19. Only a nut would do this, he's done.n/t

[welshTerrier2]

21. anyone who treated a dog like that should be locked up; not elected ...

Romney was the Gov here in Mass ... the guy did absolutely ZEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEROOOOOOOOOOOO ...

[rocktivity]

22. I'm having a President Potty-Stop flashback

You mean it ISN'T a joke???



rocknation
:wow:

[sandnsea]

23. Unbelievable

A politician more stupid than Georgieboy, whoda thunk it. And the Bushies back Mittens too, how fitting.

BTW, how did this get by the Mass Democrats?

[kurth]

24. Forward the article to everyone you know

How did he get elected governor?

[Gloria]

25. Romney totures his dog, Bush blows up frogs... this is an improvement?????

[polichick]

38. Scary...

And even scarier how many Americans are enablers when it comes to these arrogant sociopaths!

[mnhtnbb]

40. Both are unempathic a$$holes. Spread the story far and wide.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

28. K & R. Must read. Suffer the little children and their family dog.

As the oldest son, Tagg Romney commandeered the way-back of the wagon, keeping his eyes fixed out the rear window, where he glimpsed the first sign of trouble. ''Dad!'' he yelled. ''Gross!'' A brown liquid was dripping down the back window, payback from an Irish setter who'd been riding on the roof in the wind for hours.

As the rest of the boys joined in the howls of disgust, Romney coolly pulled off the highway and into a service station. There, he borrowed a hose, washed down Seamus and the car, then hopped back onto the highway. It was a tiny preview of a trait he would grow famous for in business: emotion-free crisis management.

MKJ

[Hart2008]

32. They think the crisis was the dog crap on the car, not the dog riding on the car.

Image is always most important with this guy.

The morality of animal cruelty, i.e., torturing the dog, wasn't important.

[jazzjunkysue]

29. You have to see the link with your own eyes to believe it. I'm going

to have nightmares. I swear.

He should be locked up for this. This is no joke.

Talk about a lack of empathy. This guy's a psychopath.

He's never going to survive this one. Time to go home, Mit.

[Catchawave]

58. I so agree. We failed to take Bush blowing up frogs

seriously and look where we are today :scared:

[Peregrine Took]

31. A creep and a monster. He should have to resign his office and be tried for

animal torture.

[Triana]

33. PSYCHOPATHS....conscienceless cruelty to animals...

...and people. Mitt Romney is a psychopath. It's what they do.

'Snakes in Suits'...

[Peregrine Took]

34. I bet his "team" is burning the midnight oil on how to spin this one. I know!!!

Seamus LOVES to ride on the roof - he begs to do it. Mittens couldn't deprive his beloved pet of his "special" ride.

[gordianot]

35. Transportation of dogs 101.

I have a friend who moves his hunting dogs on a regular basis. He swears his dogs get car sick especially when they can see the road. Over the years he a built substantial well ventilated dog carriers for his truck attached to bed with just the right amount of view . The one thing that throws him into a frenzy is the use of plastic dog carriers. If you are in an accident a dog in a plastic carrier has no chance. With his custom built dog carriers he figures his dogs have an equal chance of survival as he does. I have also heard him say he prefers to go with his dogs.

Mr. Romney is not a humanitarian and not a dog lover.

[polichick]

37. OMG

Says a lot about the man ~ he's either completely without compassion (a true sociopath), or he's stupid beyond belief (an empty-headed Ken doll).

[Hieronymus]

39. sick bastard

[GreenPartyVoter]

41. It's in TIME? Good. Should reach a fair number of people, then

[greyghost]

43. Looks like this bastard is...

even dumber and crueler then Dubya!

This is his George Allen moment and it should be beaten like a drum!:nuke:

[opihimoimoi]

46. The Last Feather is not a feather...ITS A FRIGGEN BOULDER

Mitt is Pit.....noob that he is.....

[rufus dog]

47. NO HE DIDN'T

Someone needs to ask him to verify this tomorrow, if true he needs to exit the race immediately.

[cassiepriam]

48. His judgment doesn't sound much better than Bush's.

Plus he should be charged with cruelty to animals.

[SKKY]

49. I guess all is not well in the Ward, huh Mitt?

[KOBUK]

53. Or maybe even a stake

in the heart of his campaign.

[ruggerson]

52. This alone should kill his chances

we are a nation of dog lovers.

What a sick bastard.

[Cha]

56. 1983? And it's just

coming out now? Where the fuck was this when he was running for gov of Mass?

[yy4me]

60. It would have been nice to know, then maybe he would not

have graced us with this phony, overdressed self for so many years. Massachusetts is a mess now thanks to him. All reading this, please have sympathy for us, we've just had 5 or 6 days of multi-page biography of him in the Boston Globe. The coverage would make everyone wish the Globe would self-destruct.

[Cha]

61. I hope Deval Patrick and Tim Murray

are doing well by you all now!

[Strawman]

62. Was he playing Hip to Be Square or Sussudio while driving

Sounds more like "American Psycho" than "Vacation." Romney kinda looks like that American Psycho guy too.

[catgirl]

57. It's too bad the shit didn't fly into his car

and all over his face! They probably didn't even let him out for a walk.
What an absolute scum bag. Believe me, this isn't going away. All of the
repub candidates are freaks. Please run Al Gore!

[Danascot]

63. That's Nothing

The Chimp strapped the country to the roof of his car and took us all for a harrowing ride for the last 6 years.

I crapped myself years ago.

[slampoet]

64. If the dog was taken to Ontario this way HE IS GUILTY OF A FELONY

In order to get to Canada with a pet you need to have your papers together and need to be transporting the animal in a certain manner.

Also in some cases a country has the right to quarantine the animal for 30 or 60 days.


WTF!!! He should have been turned back at the border if he had the animal like this!!


WHAT REALLY HAPPENED? Did he have the dog on the roof because he was smuggling it into Canada?


It kind of sounds like this entire story is made up. I have crossed the Canadian border that they mentioned at least 40 times before i turned 21 and this would have NEVER stood with any border guard.

Unless he paid them off.

[Robeson]

65. The guys a creep. I'm not surprised. Here's what I posted on another...

...thread... http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=231&topic_id=16125&mesg_id=16129

[nealmhughes]

66. Well, when it comes to the South, he never had a chance. First, not being either a Catholic on the

Gulf or a Protestant in the interior, not drinking either coffee, tea, Coke or whiskey, and now to not treat a dog well. Sorry Mittens, the only thing that a Southerner likes more than a glass of sweet tea is a pot of coffee and a 2 liter bottle of highly caffeinated soda -- and their dogs.
Why don't you go ahead and say you dislike NASCAR and make it a perfecta!

[Hart2008]

67. Romney's response: A pathological liar, the dog "scrambled up" on top by itself...

Romney dismissed any outcry about the 24-year-old incident, saying the dog enjoyed his rooftop perch.

"He scrambled up there every time we went on trips," Romney said at a campaign stop in Pittsburgh Thursday. "He got it all by himself and enjoyed it."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070629/ap_on_el_pr/on_the2008_trail_40;_ylt=AqMI3TCDJcrLsxGG3ALNSIJpu6cv

Does anyone seriously believe that dog jumped up onto the roof of the station wagon to be loaded into the pet carrier?

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[Blue_Tires]

68. lol...oh, man

"Ya know, if I wasn't in uniform, I'd split your skull with the butt of this revolver, faster than you could say 'police brutality.'"



Motorcycle Cop: Do you know what the penalty for animal cruelty is in this state?
Clark: No, sir, I don't.
Motorcycle Cop: Well... it's probably pretty stiff.

[churchofreality]

69. He is toast, between the varmint hunting, being a Mormon, now this...