Posted on 08/20/2017 9:55:22 PM PDT by WilliamIII
Mr. Mitt Romney,
CNN reported Mitt Romney called on President Donald Trump Friday (August 18) to apologize for his comments about Charlottesville, Virginia.
I see on the current on-line commentary about your criticism of President Trump and his initial and follow-up comments about the Charlottesville, Virginia fiasco and it is beyond reprehensible for you to make your comments; distorting the truth about the situation AND President Trumps statements about it. You, Sir, are a blatant disaster and you make me sick, in part, because I voted for you twice.
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The only jerk bigger than Mitt Romney is that Obama character.
A well written headline, finally.
Has Mitt apologized for putting his dog on top of his car yet? If only he’d apologized the media would’ve dropped the subject altogether. C’mon Mitt, apologize already. You lost the election because you wouldn’t say anything about it.
What’s that? You did? Then why did the media continue their attacks?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitt_Romney_dog_incident
Family response[edit]
When interviewed by Chris Wallace of Fox News, Romney stated that Seamus enjoyed being in the dog carrier, an “air-tight kennel”, and that he was not aware of any violations of Massachusetts law;[8] the states animal cruelty laws prohibit anyone from carrying an animal “in or upon a vehicle, or otherwise, in an unnecessarily cruel or inhuman manner.[9] Ann Romney, Mitt Romney’s wife, has stated that the news media exaggerated the severity of the incident, and compared traveling in the roof-top dog carrier to riding a motorcycle or riding in the bed of a pickup truck.[5] During an April 2012 interview with ABC News, Diane Sawyer asked Mitt Romney about the Seamus story and if he would ever do it again. Romney replied, “Certainly not with the attention it’s received”, after which Sawyer stated, “You said it was the most wounding thing in the campaign so far”, although it’s ambiguous whether Romney agreed with this statement. During the same interview, Ann Romney stated that Seamus got diarrhea from eating turkey off the table before the trip and that the dog loved the crate.[10][11] Romney stated that he loved his dog.[12]
Other responses[edit]
In 2007, it was reported that Ingrid Newkirk, president of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), criticized Romney about this incident.[13] Responding to PETA, Romney said, “my dog likes fresh air”.[14]
Newkirk has elaborated (speaking for herself rather than for PETA) that the Seamus incident irritates her because “there are far more serious issues to talk about” regarding mistreatment of animals.[15]
During the 2012 U.S. Republican presidential primaries, candidate Newt Gingrich aired an anti-Romney attack ad that featured the story.[16][17][18] While appearing on the ABC show This Week, Republican candidate Rick Santorum stated, “As far as Seamus the dog ... the issues of character are important in this election. We need to look at all those issues and make a determination as to whether that’s the kind of person [Romney] you want to be president of the United States.[19] Santorum’s view was at odds with that of Bill Wasik, senior editor of Wired Magazine: “Yet looking back on the Seamus Romney story today, what is most striking is its forgettability, how indistinguishable it seems in retrospect from the idiots’ parade of meaningless stories that came to define the [2008] campaign.”[20]
Journalists Mike Allen and Evan Thomas assert that Romney did nothing unusual: “Overlooked in the clucking over the incident is the fact that the dog was in a crate, probably little different from the dog kennels used to transport animals in the cold-storage compartments of airplanes. Romney had erected a barrier to shield the family pet from the wind. Romney, the family man heading to the lake, didn’t seem heartless at the time. But politics is a heartless business.[21]
Journalist Ruth Marcus of The Washington Post defended Mitt Romney’s treatment of Seamus, stating, “Doesnt the fact that Romney chose to bring the dog on the family vacation, rather than dump him in a kennel back home, suggest that hes a dog lover, not a hater?”[22] Neil Swidey, The Boston Globe journalist who wrote the initial article about Romney’s 1983 road trip, stated, “[Seamus] always struck me as a valuable window into how Romney operates. In everything the guy does, he functions on logic, not emotion.”[23]
A Public Policy Polling (PPP) survey found that 74% of Democrats, 66% of Independents, and 63% of Republicans consider it inhumane to put a family dog in a kennel on the roof of a car. The poll did not mention the windshield. The poll also found that 35% of voters would be less likely to vote for Romney because of the Seamus incident, whereas 55% of voters said that it would not affect how they vote.[24] As of September 2012, New York Times columnist Gail Collins had mentioned the Romneys’ car trip more than 70 times.[25][26][27]
Responding to Democrats who emphasized the Seamus story, conservative bloggers such as Jim Treacher drew a comparison between the Seamus incident and Barack Obama sampling dog meat as a child in Indonesia, where it is a local delicacy, as mentioned in Obama’s autobiography.[28][29] While an Obama spokesman called it an attack on a small child, Obama himself has displayed a sense of humor about it.[A][15]
At the 2012 White House Correspondent’s Association dinner, Obama poked fun at Romney releasing an “advertisement” depicting Romney and Seamus.[30]
Romney - Vichy Republican swine.
I consider Mitt grandstanding a trial balloon from lying Ryan...
How many blacks and Latinos were fired after Romney’s Bain Capital bought their companies?
Romney made big money buying companies and firing their employees. What a big-hearted guy.
Someone needs to ask the “severe conservative” what he thinks about Boston antifa telling conservatives, libertarians and anyone who believes in the US Constitution, that they are not welcome in Boston.
And, he gleamed in 2012, it made him sooooo proud!
What did water ever do to deserve that? (Badoomtish)
I think blacks could join, they just couldn’t be leaders. Isn’t that right?
GFY RomneyHole...
I disagree. Obama is an up-front liberal, wrong but at least not trying to pass himself off as something he isn’t. Romney is a lying snake, pretending to be a “conservative”. I consider Obama more honorable than backstabbing Mitt
wiki has an entire entry on Blacks in Mormonism.... yes, they could “join” but “not really”....
Let’s not forget this is the sleazy misogynist who actually keeps women fastened in binders.
Not just blacks and latinos got fired by Bain Capital. A whole lot of people’s economic circumstances, across the spectrum, were destroyed by their agenda.
I wonder if he even knows that he was a Designated Loser for the Manipulators.
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