Romney Tied Dog Roof

Before beginning the drive mitt romney put seamus the family s hulking irish setter in a dog carrier and attached it to the station wagon s roof rack.

Romney tied dog roof.

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. How it got there. In june 2007 the boston globe reported that in 1983 current republican presidential hopeful and former massachusetts governor mitt romney had placed his irish setter in a dog carrier on. When mitt romney strapped his irish setter to the roof of his car in 1983 and drove all the way to canada as the dog defecated in fear he couldn t have guessed his decision would follow him for decades enraging animal lovers and raising questions about his character and management style.

Their dog seamus rode in a carrier on the roof of the family s chevrolet caprice station wagon for the 12 hour trip. He attached a dog carrier to the roof rack of the family s chevrolet station wagon the white whale as his boys called it and assembled a. Here we re ruling on collins statement that romney drove to canada with the family dog seamus strapped to the roof of the car it s important to note that the dog was not literally strapped to. Romney strapped a dog carrier with the family dog seamus an irish setter in it to the roof of the family station wagon for a twelve hour drive from boston to ontario which.

Romney did not simply strap seamus to the roof. Romney ties his dog to the roof of his car in an airtight kennel.