Monday, July 30, 2012

Poll Romney and the Dog

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What kind of person straps a dog to the roof of the car, keeps the dog there after he gets sick, and keeps driving?

In 1983, Mitt Romney put the family dog, Seamus the Irish Setter, into a carrier that he tied to the roof of his car for a twelve-hour drive to Canada. Despite a homemade windshield that Romney attached to the carrier, the dog became predictably traumatized. At some point, Romney's eldest son noticed a brown liquid running down the rear windshield. Romney pulled over at a gas station, hosed down the car and the dog, and then put the sick dog back on top of the car and kept driving.

One might chalk it up as a long-ago mistake, but in 2008, Romney made light of the incident and didn't think it was a mistake. Romney is also a hunter and supports rodeos. Read the full story here, then answer the poll: