Posted on 05/01/2024 7:51:13 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) pushed back on comparisons between the politically damaging dog stories that plagued both his and South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s (R) potential bids for the White House.
During Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign, a decades-old story about him tying his dog Seamus to the roof of his car on a family road trip became a political headache for the then-Republican candidate for the White House.
Now, more than a decade later, Noem faces a similar political firestorm that could doom her chances of being selected as former President Trump’s running mate in 2024. But Romney rejected the correlation.
“I didn’t eat my dog. I didn’t shoot my dog,” Romney said Tuesday in an interview with HuffPost. “I loved my dog, and my dog loved me.”
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I vote Republican. That year I DIDN’T vote for Mitt Romney for MA governor because of that dog story and the stories about him getting animals from shelters that he lied about wanting personally and then using them for research. People who injure animals are lower than dirt. What he’s done to Trump is indicative of the same bad character he’s had all along.
You want to risk that, your privilege. Keep all the dangerous dogs you want. On your own property. And with your own kids.
Do not shove them off on other people so they can be maimed because of your weakness.
I absolutely hate this hypocrisy! The garden gnome, Fauci, cuts the vocal cords of multiple puppies and tortures them with sand flies and the no one cares. No media firestorm. No comments. Babies are butchered alive in the womb, and no problem.
My book is fine. Should we put people because they punched somebody? Is your kid irredeemable, because he punched somebody? If your kid punched my kid, should I put two bullets in his head because I deemed him irredeemable?
It may sound soft to you, but your mentality just put an end to the career of Noem.
If, after training, the dog couldn’t be controlled, it should be put down. But it deserves that much.
Poor Romney, still trying to make himself relevant no matter what he has to comment on.
“What a disgusting squish. I can’t believe HE is the one we had to vote for.”
I have to agree. Mitt and McCain really turned out to be assistant Democrats.
Not a Romney fan but his actions were negligent, not intentional.
At the end of the day, they’re both RINO phonies who will sell out conservatives for the chamber of commerce globalists in a heartbeat.
I wish I hadn’t voted for Romney, but the guy was a money man — would he really be getting dogs for research purposes? Also, the thing never discussed in the dog on the roof story is how many other people drove with dogs in carriers on their car roofs. Maybe that wasn’t so rare a thing back then. I don’t know.
She was embarrassed by a puppy, shot a puppy and then tried to justify it with some b.s. excuse about how it “tried” to bite her when she reached for it while eating (very common dog behavior). This wasn’t exactly a pitbull charging a toddler.
Noem’s mistake was bragging about it in a book. You have to know it’s a sensitive topic. Her common sense is questionable.
Shitlery is just evil distilled.
I heard a rumor that because Noem is now probably disqualified as a VP nominee, the Secret Service is wondering if she’d be available to deal with some biting dogs on the White House grounds.
I forgot to mention is my previous post - Just go away, Mitt. Now that you’ve announced your retirement, you have nothing to say that anyone cares about, so just shut up!!
I don’t care about this, talk about invented nonsense.
A dog that has killed other animals and attacked people, I got no issue whatsoever with it being put down.
Damned pantywastes... No wonder we let killers walk free, no one is willing to put the mad dogs down.
A stand up could work that one into his act.
No Mitt, you just left it in abject terror for hours on end as you happily drove down the highway with your luggage in the car. Much better doncha think?
The story pointed to when he was a young student doing research. I used to drive a lot between states and in MA. NEVER have I seen a dog carrier on a car roof. Hire a driver and let Romney sit in a cage on the roof. Then I’d vote for his compassion.
I wasn’t there, I’ll give her the benefit of the doubt.
Nobody in rural America will take a dog if it killed livestock.
I never saw or heard of a dog riding on top of a car in the 60s/70s, and Romney had a lot of kids when he did the dog thing.
The dog story told by a Romney son and published by The Boston Globe as part of a multipart series on the former Massachusetts governor. The anecdote was intended to highlight his problem-solving skills.
“Before beginning the drive, Mitt Romney put Seamus, the family’s hulking Irish setter, in a dog carrier and attached it to the station wagon’s roof rack. He’d built a windshield for the carrier, to make the ride more comfortable for the dog.
[snip]
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.”
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