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Mitt Romney and the dog on the roof

The Menagerie
#21

[QUOTE=dacasodivine;6147009]
Folks, this was 30 YEARS ago! There is no evidence he ever did it again. He pulled over and cleaned the dog up so he didn’t have to finish the ride covered in poo. I would bet after that, he kenneled his dog rather than bring him on vacation!

Seriously, though, is that the only crap the media can come up with to make him out to be a bad guy?[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Alagirl;6147033]You think with 7 people inside there was a lot of room for luggage? :lol:

Yep, that’s been 30 years ago.

Think back of all the things you did back then you would never ever do again.[/QUOTE]

Seriously

One should wonder - why is someone so afraid of Romney that they have to (continually) dredge up something that happened 30 years ago? Really?

Everyone has made a stupid mistake. And many of them have fudged or outright lied to avoid more embarrassment over something they were ashamed of.

Where is the outrage against the many, many dogs who are riding in the back of open pickup trucks, and not just around town? Many of them aren’t even secured back there. Are they ignored simply because they aren’t running for public office?

There really are more important things regarding the health and future of this country than continually worrying about this.

#22

It’s actually funny that people drag that up, yet many of those people probably voted for the person who is good buddies with a guy who sent a NAIL BOMB to a NYC police station, then said many years later in an interview he wished he’d done more.

#23

[QUOTE=redalter;6147197]
It’s actually funny that people drag that up, yet many of those people probably voted for the person who is good buddies with a guy who sent a NAIL BOMB to a NYC police station, then said many years later in an interview he wished he’d done more.[/QUOTE]

:slight_smile:

#24

What do you want to bet that the kids also hung their arms out the windows and not everyone was belted in. It was 30 years ago!!! Back then people sometimes did foolish things.

Because we didn’t have every freaking agency on God’s green earth telling us that everything is for our own safety of our kids and pets. Yet somehow someway the majority of us managed to survive anyway.

How many of you older folks rode without helmets as kids etc.? I know I certainly did, without any helmet police attacking me. I remember driving around town without a seatbelt on, OMG the horrors!

No I wouldn’t do either of those things now, I’m older I’m wiser and I’ve learned sometimes the hard way.

Romney was a young man with a boatload of kids going on a nice little family vacation. He tried to be nice and bring the dog, yet his plan went awry. So we are going to now say he is unfit for office because he made a stupid mistake 30 years ago.

Go ahead and throw that first stone those of you who have never made an error in your life that involved an animal. Go ahead let’s hear it.

#25

Uh, 1983 was not exactly pre-modern. Yes, it was before the era of children in safety seats, seat belt laws, widespread embrace of spay/neuter (to pick 3 issues somewhat randomly) but it wasn’t the dark ages. More importantly, think about Rommney in 1983; he was a Harvard graduate, a 36-year-old husband and father, and a “management consultant” and rising business star who’d go on in the next year to raise millions to start his own firm. He has none of the typical excuses for indifference to another’s pain - he was wealthy, well-educated, fully mature, and had many resources to solve his family’s packing problem. And yet his solution was to place a living animal on the roof of a car and head out on the highway for 7 hours. I’m not qualified to diagnose him, but there’s a lack there. I wouldn’t want him as a president.

#26

Ditto. You should see some of the flimsy contraptions folks stick their cats and dogs in on the flat bed of their trucks around here. :no:

#27

Wow, to condemn someone as a Presidential candidate because of this, yet the masses (not saying you, vacation, no idea who you like) praise Obama and others who have done FAR worse damaging things to this country. :confused:

If you admit to not being “qualified to diagnose him”, why are you condeming him based on this?

Is this why every President gets a dog, so they will be seen as “caring”?

What about the fact that Romney, when CEO of Bain Capital, set aside 10s of thousands of $$ to relocated a team to help find a missing child belonging to a “lowly” employee of his. THAT doesn’t get press, but a 30 year old “dang, really shouldn’t have done that” with the dog is what sets people against him?

No wonder we’re heading into a mess.

#28

[QUOTE=Arbitrary;6146813]
I’m with Mao. That incident showed not only a nearly sociopathic lack of empathy for a vulnerable critter,…
Someone who makes that sort of decision has no business being POTUS. And he laughs it off like it’s nothing, no big deal…IMO worsening the incident. A wise man would at least admit to the mistake/lack of judgment, maybe use it as a teachable moment (dogs are not luggage). Not this guy.
Why wouldn’t we hold a politician, who potentially will govern all of us, to the same standards to which we would hold ourselves or a friend? (party affinity notwithstanding).[/QUOTE]

So, how do you feel about Obama signing horse slaughter back into law? Or do I have my facts wrong?
I took the bait, but what is it with the political threads here? Was off topic day too short for everyone?

#29

Good grief, let’s flip this around: 2008 was not long ago. He (obama) was wealthy, well educated, fully mature and had many resources to solve his family church membership decisions. And yet his solution was to sit in Trinity Churchs pews listening to Rev Wrights bigoted sermons for 20 years. I’m not qualified to diagnose him, but there’s a lack there and he is our president.

#30

:yes: :yes: :yes:

#31

So all some folks can do to defend Romney’s cruelty to a dog is to attack Obama’s church? I’m not an Obama fan but it is telling about this forum that people would do that. Sort of a redirect when someone makes a point you can’t effectively counter.

I personally can’t stand Romney…didn’t like the look of him from the start nor his smirky smile nor his platform nor his past actions…and finding out about the dog was more than enough to show my instincts were right and he’s not the candidate for me. Pretty much what Mao said earlier works for me. If we end up with a choice between Romney, Obama or Santorum(don’t get me started on him), I’m just not going to vote in a show of my disgust for all three of them. It’s a sad state of affairs when all our nation can trot out for election are people like these.

#32

[QUOTE=Chall;6147604]
So, how do you feel about Obama signing horse slaughter back into law? Or do I have my facts wrong?
I took the bait, but what is it with the political threads here? Was off topic day too short for everyone?[/QUOTE]

One, horse slaughter was never made illegal. The USDA was simply barred from inspecting equine slaughter plants.

Two, congress makes laws, not the President.

Three, the horse slaughter legislation was not put forward as its own bill, it was a rider on another, more important bill, as most bits of legislation are. Vetoing part means vetoing the whole thing, only to have congress turn around and override it.

I know this government stuff is SUUUPPPPEEERRR complicated, but come on, folks.

#33

[QUOTE=RainyDayRide;6147130]
As of this writing, Mr. Romney’s campaign has not responded to multiple requests for comment on this story. [/I]

As always, botching things up and then there’s the “no comment”-policy.

Pathetic.

#34

I don’t think any of that was “defending” Romney, merely pointing out that something done 30 years ago out of what was likely ignorance, is really, really not even on the same planet as what Obama has much more recently done, did for years and years, in regards to that church/pastor. It’s just not even a comparable issue. Combine it with O having never, ever been in any sort of business venture, and now pretending to know how to run a giant “corporation” and thinking he knows how we need to live out lives better than we do, and, well, yeah, there’s a lot that is more important than an incident 30 years ago.

Pick on Romney (or anyone else) for their business practices, or their views on how to stop Obama from sending us into a $22T debt in the next 10 years, but goodness, to keep dredging up the dog issue is doing what liberals are very, very good at doing - playing at heartstrings instead of getting people to think about real issues and ramifications :slight_smile:

I personally can’t stand Romney…didn’t like the look of him from the start nor his smirky smile nor his platform nor his past actions…and finding out about the dog was more than enough to show my instincts were right and he’s not the candidate for me. Pretty much what Mao said earlier works for me. If we end up with a choice between Romney, Obama or Santorum(don’t get me started on him), I’m just not going to vote in a show of my disgust for all three of them. It’s a sad state of affairs when all our nation can trot out for election are people like these.

Please vote :slight_smile: Not voting doesn’t help the situation at all, and may likely allow O to stay in office, and I KNOW you don’t want that :slight_smile: Many elections come down to the lesser of 2 evils, and “protesting” by not voting isn’t going to change that at all

#35

Politicians live public lives.

Personally I find Mitt Romney so terrifying that this really doesn’t bother me 1/100th much as the other stuff.

#36

Oh goodness no, I wasn’t defending Romney’s Dog-Gate. :eek: It was more a character comparison: the president wanna-be did this stupid thing one time decades ago and the seated president was a full fledged member of a church that many people find offensive for half of his adult life. That is all.

#37

Geez

Same here. I think what Romney did was dumb, and in no way am I condoning it. I am just sick and tired of the media - I know it’s not you all- defending and covering up the horrible things Obaam has done. Recently.

Can you say journolist? That was a group of “journalists” that agreed to cover up and deflect any stories about Ayres, Wright, etc. Seriously. Google it.

And they admitted to it! And some of them were TV news anchors!! so in thier stories, thy openly spun things in Obamas’ favor. And now they are falling all over themselves about stuff Romney did 30 years ago.

It just gets so old.

Violated Federal bankruptcy law well, he conveniently “circumvented it” and if you were a Chrylser bondholder - sorry! I am giving the money to the unions

Freedom of religion? Only for non Catholics- I am pro choice, but that whole thing is terrifying.

I could go on, but that is for another thread.

Read. Get the FACTS, not what Maddow, Media Matters, Fox, etc, feed. Then make your decisions.

Sorry, little rant, I am ok now:o- back to the dog thing.

#38

Yep, do not ever rely on the “news” stations to be feeding you the truth, when it’s a fact that Media Matters has been in bed with them for several years now, feeding them the stories to put out there and of course slanting everything in favor of their (liberal) side.

#39

Not tom mention an utter lack of common sense.
Why not put the luggage on the roof?

#40

[QUOTE=Ghazzu;6148680]
Not tom mention an utter lack of common sense.
Why not put the luggage on the roof?[/QUOTE]

Maybe the luggage doesn’t smell or move around was why?:wink:

If a dog in the back of the pickup is redneck, what is a dog on the roof of a car?:eek:
I never heard that one.:confused:

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