Posted on 06/28/2007 1:17:38 PM PDT by Fawn
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
PETA will speak up any time now if they haven’t already.
almost a sceen from the movie VACATION
Weird, if true. However, it reads like a moonbat media hit piece.
Junk hit piece that has already been discussed in this thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1857778/posts
1983?
Romney got it mixed up. Grandma goes on the roof and the dog is tied to the back bumper.
You mean it’s not true?
this is the umpteeth time this has been posted. enough already with this non story nonsense. It’s a friggen’ dog, not grandma!
OMG. This only proves the Democrats are getting worried about Romney. If he was a Democrat and favored abortion this story would not have seen the light of day.
Did the dog die? Probably enjoyed the refreshing air and not having to restrict his personal hygiene movements.
:)
I am not even going to read this just make the comment that media double standards rule the roost.
To wit: “Put some ice on that.”
Will Hillary’s treatment of White House travel office staffers get the same media attention?
You think they are desperate for any dirt on Mitt if they are scraping the bottom of the barrel with this? LOL!
Anyway, my dogs always love hanging their heads out of the window feeling the wind in their faces. The dog was probably in heaven.
Oh my, what a great point. Partial birth abortion OK, but dog in crate enjoying the wind NOT.
No it's blown out of proportion. THOUSANDS of people transport their dogs in carriers. Usually in the backs of trucks that are just as outdoors as the roof of cars. Dogs are transported in carriers in the baggage of airlines.
No it is not cruelty. If it were my dogs wouldn't be happy to jump up into the carrier when I walked outside and said "kennel up". What is cruelty is NOT having a dog in a carrier in the back of a truck. I've had plenty jump out of the back and even out of car windows and break legs, something that would have never happened if they were in a carrier.
The major contributor to this "article" was a representative from PETA.
So yes it probably happened. Mitt Romney probably put his dog in a dog carrier and strapped the carrier down to the roof of the station wagon. In reality though the hit piece is spun so it sounds much worse then it actually is.
Dog do like a bit of air... not that much air though...
Hey, Chevy Chase strapped his dead aunt to the roof of his car on vacation and nobody said boo.
Sparky Romney
Time gets WONKETTE to write this article?
Read the Boston Globe article. They strapped the carrier to the top of the car, but Romney also constructed a wind screen, so the dog wouldn’t get blown to bits.
Again, this is no worse than carrying the dog in the back of a pick up truck, and it was all they could do short of leaving the dog home. They had seven people and all their luggage in a station wagon, and it was a large dog.
See post #15. This was not only posted today, but yesterday as well. I have to admit, yesterday’s thread actually has some funny photos posted on it.
This is on a couple of threads — there is no mention that the animal suffered any negative consequences.
So what’s the big deal?
The dog was in an animal carrier and had a wind screen.
Many "conservatives" around here feel their dogs are as valuable as anyone's grandma and would deem YOU worthy of being lashed to the luggage rack (or tied to the bumper) for daring to make such a distinction. ;O)
“You think they are desperate for any dirt on Mitt if they are scraping the bottom of the barrel with this?”
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LOL!!! If this is the worst thing that can be said of Mitt, how bad can he be? :-)
Speaking of which, did you Search before posting this duplicate thread? ;^)
Back in 1983, he may have also called the dog a “Macaca”. He’s doomed! Doomed, the Dems will tell you!
GRANTED the pickup is parked, but of course we know that Con Edwards is far too down-to-earth and genuine to mug for the camera in contrived poses. Surely therefore he MUST have been previously carrying the dog in the open bed of this truck, or preparing to do so.
In any case a full investigation is in order!
WHEN WILL TIME RECOGNIZE "THE SERIOUSNESS OF THE CHARGE"???
Wow, there’s actual dirt in the bed of that pickup.
But Edwards’ head looks like it was photo-shopped onto some other guy’s body there.
And all the little liberal lemmings in the media will pick up on this, and start writing their stupid little articles about how bad Romney is and how they will never vote for him. Letters to the editor will follow. TV and radio newsreaders will talk about it. Jay Leno and David Letterman will make jokes about it.
The usual routine.
You can't put a dog in the open bed of a pickup truck without restraining it because it could fall out. Dogs tend to like to stand with their front paws on the side of the bed, and could easily slip when going around a corner and could possible fall out, though I've seen a number of dogs ride in the back of pickup trucks that way without incident in the past.
However, a dog isn't going to fall out of a well secured dog carrier. They are even less likely to get tossed around and hurt than if the carrier were unsecured within the car.
Most dogs I know would like the fresh air blowing around the carrier more than they would like to be inside the car.
Leaving a dog in a carrier for twelve hours without letting it out is bordering on cruel, but the article doesn't actually say he did that. In fact while it mentions the length of the trip and the fact that the dog used the roof as a bathroom, it seems to pointedly avoid criticizing him for the length of time the dog was in the carrier and instead criticizes him for the manner in which the dog was transported.
That lead me to believe that the dog was let out of the carrier when they stopped along the way and they are just leaving that part out because it doesn't fit with how they want to present the story.
Thinking of the wind, the weather, the speed, the vulnerability, the isolation on the roof, it is commonsense that any dog who's under extreme stress might show that stress by losing control of his bowels: that alone should have been sufficient indication that the dog was, basically, being tortured
I've never met a dog that didn't like the wind when traveling in a car. In my experience you have to be careful not to roll down the windows too far out of fear that as the dog tries to stick most of it's upper body outside the window and look in the direction you are going, it might go too far and fall out.
The reason you need to be careful with a dog in the open bed of a pickup truck is the same. They tend to lean over the edge of the bed by the cab, facing forward, looking where the vehicle is traveling, and often running from side to side in excitement.
The most likely reason the dog went to the bathroom on the roof is that it was too excited to go to the bathroom when they stopped and then couldn't hold it.
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