Posted on 01/14/2012 10:48:30 AM PST by Utmost Certainty
It might be unseemly to bring this up just as Mitt Romney celebrates his win in New Hampshire on Tuesday night and seems to be a strong front-runner for the GOP nomination. But the story of his putting his dog in a carrier on his car roof for a 12-hour family trip is spreading again on the Internet and disturbs me the more I learn about it.
And I am betting the more it gets out, the more votes Romney loses — red, blue and purple.
When, in a campaign debate, Romney opposed allowing a non-documented worker who has lived here for 25 years to stay and earn his way to citizenship, he struck me as heartless.
But when I read the story recently in greater detail about what Romney did to his Irish Setter, Seamus, that struck me as more than heartless — it struck me as downright cruel.
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One is frankly, a widely approved and understood solid American redneck way of transporting a hound.
The other, seems mentally ill.
Next question?
We’ve taken many many road trips as a family over the past 30+ years and I cannot recall ever seeing a dog carrier strapped to the roof of a car. I’ve seen lots of dogs in the back of pickups, or hanging out the windows, but never a carrier on the roof.
a widely approved and understood solid American redneck way of transporting a hound.
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As was kids in the back of a pickup truck.
The so called ‘elitists’ didn’t approve - not so much the dogs or kids in the bed - they just thought the idea of driving a pickup truck was crude and ‘hillbillyish’.
In those days, the only pickups one saw were either construction or, on occasion, farm vehicles, unless of course you lived in rural areas....
My mom tells the story of the next-door neighbors at our cabin from the late twenties and thirties. Their dog would stand on the running board the entire ride from Minneapolis to Northern Minnesota! But granted - max speed was maybe 35 mph? (It was an all-day trip back then.)
One time they got to their cabin and the dog was gone, and they figured it fell off at some point in the journey. Two days later it showed up at their cabin!
It’s dangerous to transport an animal loose in the back of a pickup, solid American redneck or not. Lots of states have laws where you can’t do that simply because the animal would jump out at something while the vehicle is moving. And yes, it was a stupid thing for MR to do that.
Yeah, I’ve never seen it either.
Seems very weird on his part and confirms a bizarre, robotic disconnect he seems to have. As if there’s not much going on upstairs.
Lots of things are dangerous.
It’s dangerous to climb a mountain.
It’s dangerous to jump out of a perfectly good airplane.
It’s dangerous to smoke, or drive fast. It’s dangerous to not wear a motorcycle helmet or your seatbelts.
I’m in favor of people deciding for themselves, whether to do any of those things of their own free choice, because this is a free country.
Putting one’s dog on top of the car, is just plain weird.
I wasn’t trying to defend MR’s action. I was comparing the two. Having a dog loose in the back of a pickup is dangerous not only to the dog but in case the dog should jump out (wherein comes the law in many states forbidding that) or the truck hit a bump causing the dog to be thrown out. I’ve seen pickup trucks driving down the freeway with the dog hanging over the side. It was stupid in MR’s case and the Redneck American method of transporting a dog loose in the back of their pickup (from another poster’s justification) just as stupid.
All the people that think this is animal cruelty are nuts. There was no room for the dog. The carrier was secured to the car. The dog probably had a good time or slept. The runs were caused by eating remnants of the chocolate cake shared by the Romneys the night before.
You are getting sucked in by the lib media and you don’t even know it. Too bad.
Now THAT’s a great story!
I could care less about how a person transports their animal. None of my business and personally I fear more from the nannies that place any business in what I consider what is none of their business. If you want to haul your dog around in the back of your pickup, more power to you. If you want to travel with your pet in carrier on top of your car, more power to you.
I suppose all the Mitt Romney zombies who attacked Sarah Palin were sucked in by the liberal media then.
And Karl Rove was sucked in by the liberal media when he attacked Christine O’Donnell.
Sorry. Mitt completely appears to have started it 4 years ago. Deliberately it seemed, and still does seem.
He can jolly well be subjected to the same smears.
Please stop whining.
Liberals will be far, far less gentle.
Here is some more jail bait: http://www.google.com/search?q=motorcycle+dog+carrier&hl=en&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=QNQRT_XJDYeUtwebhLnLDw&ved=0CDkQsAQ&biw=640&bih=335#p=0
Here’s an interesting story on that:http://www.ksdk.com/news/article/296683/18/Mitt-Romney-dog-on-the-roof-story-appears-in-Newt-Gingrich-ad
Most people who had dogs in the back of their pickups were just driving down the dirt roads on their own farms. The dogs could also get away from the wind by laying down, but I don’t know anyone who used to drive on a highway with a dog in back (not to say there aren’t people ignorant enough to do it, after all we have a candidate for President who put a dog on top of his car for a 12 hour highway trip).
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