'Crate-Gate' Plot Twist: Did Seamus Run Away? (Romney's car roof dog)

The Atlantic Wire ^ | 1/31/2012 | Eric Randall

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PolitickerNY has a report out Tuesday that Seamus, the dog Romney famously put on the roof of the car when the family drove to Canada in 1983, may have actually run away once the Romneys reached the Great White North. As any Gail Collins readers will know by now, a 2004 Boston Globe story revealed that Mitt Romney strapped his dog's crate to the roof of the family car, terrifying the pooch in the process. Though it was intended as an illustration of Romney's quirky crisis-management, pet lovers everywhere have let it live on as evidence of candidate's cruelty. PolitckerNY's Hunter Walker cites two anonymous sources who say the Romney sons told reporters off-the-record that Seamus actually ran away once they reached Canada. Mitt Romney has said Seamus lived long past that trip, and that he enjoyed riding on top of the car, by way of deflecting attacks from PETA and other animal advocates. But expect this new development to fuel the arguments of those who think the act was abusive.

[BansheeBill]

From Popular Mechanics magazine, June 1936:


There was also another issue in the late 30s or early 40s of Popular Mechanics or Mechanix Illustrated which showed a similar design using a wooden rectangular box mounted on a running board, with a piece of inner tube nailed over the top opening with a lengthwise slit so a dog could stick its head out to get some air. There was a time in this country when most people did not consider their dog or cat to actually be a little human that happened to be covered with fur, and that had to be pampered to the max.

[RinaseaofDs]

Oh, I’m quite positive the GOP is in the process of once again screwing themselves and us in backing this guy.

My point here is that this story should never see the light of day in a society using a two party constitutional system of goverment with set terms. That it has is an indication that we probably ought to move to a type of representative republic designed for a less moral people. Parliamentarian democracies work for countries full of idiots. We could have called an election in year 1.5 of the Obama debacle and deposed the idiot, for example.

I’m a staunch Gingrich supporter (given the alternatives available) and my comment on this bit ISN’T because I think Romney deserves a break.

What conclusions can you make of the pyschological makeup of nearly everyone who runs for President?

Palin’s probably the only one that seems to be interested in running because she’s smart enough to know the USA as we know it is all done. She believes it doesn’t have to be that way, and some truthtelling could save it, and maybe other countries.

She’s not running, and I don’t fault her for not running. She put her family above her duty. Who wouldn’t?

You look at Romney, Gingrich, and Obama, and you have three men that would sell their families into slavery to hold the office. How long has Romney been running for President now?

Of course he’s psycho. The story still has no place in a process where we are deciding on who’s going to run the country.