Posted on 04/26/2012 4:17:42 PM PDT by RobinMasters
You can thank BuzzFeed’s Andrew Kaczynski for the front-page thumbnail. In all seriousness, this is a “gamechanger” in the literal sense of that term. Axelrod and his pals are playing a breathtakingly stupid game with the “dog wars” and this anecdote will in fact change voters’ perceptions if/when it enters wider media circulation. Romney 2012: Because “dog” plus “water” does not equal “stew.”
Oh, almost forgot. He and his sons saved a bunch of people too during this same incident.
“We heard a whole bunch of screaming,” said Josh Romney, who immediately hopped onto his Jet Ski. “We tore out of there and my dad hopped on the other Jet Ski and came out right after us.”
Roughly 300 yards out onto the lake, six adult family members and their dog were floundering in the water, after their boat suddenly sprung a huge leak — sinking in less than 90 seconds, Josh said…
In the middle of the rescue, the governor actually took a dunking himself — thrown off the Jet Ski as one anxious boater scrambled aboard and tipped the craft off-balance.
The rescuing Romneys also managed to snatch the family dog, McKenzie, from a watery grave — grabbing the Scottish terrier first because it was the only passenger without a lifejacket.
“It looked like it wasn’t going to last much longer,” said Josh, who held the waterlogged pooch on the ride back to shore.
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Besides, if the incident had really happened Mitt would have had a local TV station standing by to record the action.
Thank you, Johnny. And btw, it is so good to see you.
I'm not a Romney fan at all, but I'll say this on every thread it comes up on -- There are enough REAL problems with Romney without having to make up BS stories about "animal cruelty."
Are you going to go on commando missions to save the baby seals next or what? Good grief.
One look at the headline and I wondered, ‘did he snatch it out of Obama’s hands?’
That is what you get when you have liberals who don't value humans.
Stupid and oblivious.
I’ve spent my whole life having the misfortune of getting stuck behind some idiot whose dog is bouncing around unrestrained in the back of a pickup truck.
Couple years ago, one of those idiots got t-boned running a stop sign.
He’s fine but they never did find his dog who’d been thrown out of the truck bed and onto to blacktop.
Was it fine and just took off?
Was it internally injured and laid around in a ditch for days, dying in agony?
No one knows.
The ignoramuses who let their dogs hang their heads out of open car windows are just as guilty, IMO.
Airborne debris, gravel, wind induced corneal ulceration and abrasion.
A blind dog just because the owner was too dense to say “no” to the dog ‘liking to hang their face in the wind”.
A four year old kid would probably love to stand on the car hood and “fly” but a [theoretically] more intelligent parent wouldn’t -let- them.
I don’t see a lot of intentional cruelty out here in Hillbilly Heaven but I *do see a lot of spectacular stupidity.
[ain’t ever heard of anybody eatin’ dawgs, though]
LOL
Think about this from an Alinksy playbook perspective;
Most people love dogs.
Would you rather face ridicule for being so blindingly stupid you hauled a dog on the car roof or for being so “foreign/alien/freakish” that you *ate* dogs and then bragged about it in a book?
Obeyme’s people played on the figurative visceral reaction of Mitt’s Setter so it makes perfect sense to play on the literal visceral reaction to Obeyme’s supper.
I imagine this falls under Saul’s “fight fire with fire/ridicule” section.
I hate to tell people this, but animals travel on the outside of vehicles all the time.
Does anyone even know what kind of carrier the dog was in?
A dog would willingly poke its head into the wind even when that was hurting its eyes?
I’ve seen spectacles for dogs. They look cool but it’s hard to figure out how they keep it on the dog. The dog doesn’t perceive it as something to be kept on.
I know about windborne stuff. One morning after I had been riding my harley with a helmet on, my ear felt so stuffed up that I went to the doctor. Lo and behold, when the nurse washed it out, there was a postage stamp piece of paper towel with a pattern I didn’t recognize. It must have whipped in under the edge of the helmet and burrowed into my ear.
Mark Steyn addresses this issue. The other "exploding cigar" is the Dems attacking Romney over ancestor polygamy. Steyn's column is both hilarious and informing in how to respond to this nonsense from the Dems.
The damage is not immediate and there is no pain while it’s happening so the dog really isn’t aware of it.
That comes later when the cornea is dried out and begins to ulcerate.
When and if depends on the length/frequency of exposure and the dog’s particular ability to secrete sufficient tears to mitigate the dryness.
One of my girls has chronic dry eye and needs drops applied frequently.
She’s not even allowed to have a window cracked in the car.
You do *not* want to deal with corneal ulcers.
They are horrible, painful, hard to treat things which cost a *lot* of money to get under control again...*if* you can.
I have a pair of Doggles I tried to use on her during her ulceration episode but the long, thin shape of a Sighthound’s head and the design of Doggles isn’t a very good match.
They’d fit much better on a ‘blockier’ head.
The straps hold on them pretty well if they fit the dog’s skull, in general.
Unfortunately, they just slid off of her long, narrow head.
That’s awful about your ear.
Hubby once had a very angry wasp get inside of his helmet.
I wear a leather skullcap under mine so even if a bee gets in there, it’s not going to be able to sting me through the leather.
I also wear a headband over my ears, mostly because too much cold wind makes my ears hurt but I guess there’s also the benefit of keeping things out of them....:)
Shout out to Vet Vet Doug: is this a common problem with pooches that loll their heads in the wind? Their eyes dry out and ulcerate? Would something like a petrolatum based ointment help head that off, short of keeping the dog from poking its head out into the wind?
You doubt my word?
5 minutes on Google could’ve gotten you *tons* of “professional advice” and no, sticking ointment in their eyes won’t help.
The sticky ointment could actually ‘catch’ larger pieces of dust and debris causing further damage.
Sorry you don’t trust me.
http://www.thedogtrainingsecret.com/blog/safe-car-trips-dogs/
http://micheljayne.hubpages.com/hub/Pet-Wellness-Driving-Safety-Dont-Be-Brainless
http://www.petplace.com/dogs/the-danger-of-driving-with-dogs/page1.aspx
http://www.vetinfo.com/dog-eye-care-explanation.html
http://www.nativeremedies.com/petalive/ailment/cats-dogs-dry-eyes-remedies.html
http://www.petsclan.com/5-risks-driving-dog.html
http://www.mypetsdoctor.com/pets-must-not-ride-in-drivers-laps
Bottom line is, *if* you care about your dog, keep your dog’s head inside the car.
If you really need empiric evidence, ride a motorcycle with no windshield and no eye protection at 65mph for a little while.
Let me know how that works out for you.
The trivialization of our political life continues apace.
Looks like pretty sorry shape and so? What’s adequate eye protection is a valid question to ask. Going naked and ill fitting Doggles aren’t. Some other things may be and who would know but veterinarians.
I have, with nothing but an open faced helmet (face visor flipped up or removed) and normal eyeglasses, which have a quarter inch or more space between my face and the lens.
Speaking of visor, why aren’t there any dog helmets with visors? Assuming the dog did not find it too annoying, it would look cool and help with the eyes, and the dog could safely do what it finds fun.
Some driver held a little terrier dog up to the driver’s window on his lap or shoulder so it could poke its head out like the big dogs?
Eye dangers aside, hope it was really well secured so it couldn’t leap out the window or get hanged on its leash, or make its way under the pedals. And as they always say, nothing should be between the steering wheel airbag and the driver.
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