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Mitt Romney may not have told the whole truth about the scandalous tale of his Irish Setter, Seamus, being strapped to the roof of his car during a 12-hour family road trip to Canada. According to a trusted Politicker tipster, two of Mr. Romney’s sons had an off-record conversation with reporters where they revealed the dog ran away when they reached their destination on that infamous journey in 1983.
Mr. Romney’s wife, Ann, has previously said Seamus survived the trip and went on to live to a “ripe old age.” As of this writing, Mr. Romney’s campaign has not responded to multiple requests for comment on this story.
Mr. Romney and his wife clearly want the world to think that, despite defecating himself, Seamus had a pleasant trip to Canada and a long life in the Romney household. However, based on what Mr. Romney’s sons allegedly told reporters about Seamus going on the lam in Canada, Seamus didn’t like being strapped to the car enough to stick around for the return trip.
Somehow I don't think we want to choose a leader of the free world whose dog was so traumatized by him that he ran across the border to escape into Canada. What do you think?
This story has really caught on now and David Letterman has introduced a new segment of his show called "What's Mitt Romney's dog tied to today?" (I also urge you to watch the video until the end to see the portion called "Cool, Not Cool.")
This version of the story makes sense. What dog in his right mind would stick around after being tortured for a full day?
ReplyDeleteMedia says that Newt has a gender problem (GOP women prefer Mitt). But in November, very few women will support Mitt once this story becomes widely circulated. (No offense Gryph, but between a random man and woman, the bet would be placed on the woman to be the most empathetic.)
David Letterman was spot on.
Good for Seamus.
ReplyDeleteI feel sorry for Romney's kids.. somehow torture and criminal neglect of the family pet was modeled as "a sensible solution" by their father, but surely they knew something was horribly wrong.
You can't make this stuff up....the comedians thought Dubya was gold, this is like their wet dream. Mitt doesnt care about the poor now, at last some honesty. I hope you caught
ReplyDeleteThe Last Word tonight...major news on Mitts tax returns, its gonna bury him forever when the rest pick up on it. I cant wait to see HBO game change...I think Sarah will have a major meltdown, its like early xmas.
I am wondering if Mitt "got rid" of the dog and told his kids that the dog "ran away". As an animal rescuer it is hard to believe that the dog would run away, very few animals do--even those mistreated are extremely loyal. My money is on Mitt having "gotten rid" of what he considered a troublesome inconvenience to himself. Just my opinion.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was growing up we lived in a rural area close to a big city. It was a dumping ground for unwanted pets. I can guess the lies these irresponsible owners told about their unwanted pets.
ReplyDelete"ran away" "got loose""disappeared"
I doubt the people who would occasionally shoot their dog and and dump it would tell the truth about that dog.
I have no idea what really happened to Willard's Seamus. I hope he had a happy life other than his ride from hell. I also hope Willard is not putting his family in a position where they have to lie about this dog. It is obvious Willard doesn't have a clue about animals or people.
*Some people say* (FNC not them but like them) that Seamus, that Mitten took him into a CAR WASH!!!
ReplyDeleteanyway you look at it, its abuse.
What a cold hearted bastard.
Great little mix:
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I found a forum on exmormon dot org, it's a support group for Mormons who have left the church basically. There is a forum discussing Mitt and what he said about the poor. Here is part of a comment: "The gospel of prosperity has infused the Mormon church since the beginning and is now stronger than ever. If you are rich it is because you are righteous. If you are poor, you are either dumb or wicked or both."
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http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,405798
Main website will give you a LOT of insight on Mormonism.
www.exmormon.org
Even in the summer time it can be very cold driving through New England – even when you are inside your car. If you were on top of a vehicle that was moving 60 or 70 mph, the wind chill, mixed with the outdoor cold air currents that sometimes come down from Canada, would be brutal. The dog would have been equally uncomfortable, and arguably even more so, once Romney stopped the car, hosed him down with cold water, and then resumed the cold exposure. As any veterinarian can tell you, being cold is frightening to animals. Add to this: exposure to pollutants from other vehicles and the onslaught of summer bugs (we know how they collect on our head lamps and windshields; imagine how they affected the poor, wet, and cold dog).
ReplyDeleteI think this story illustrates much more than just the cold-heartedness of Romney. It shows that he does not plan ahead well, that he is completely oblivious to everything that does not directly affect his own personal comfort, and that he is actually detached from reality.
Other examples of his detachment from reality: "Corporations are people, my friend," "Banks are not bad people," "I like being able to fire people," "I'm also unemployed," and "I'm not concerned about the very poor" – to say nothing of his spontaneous willingness to make a $10,000 bet, on camera, about a trivial matter.
We can laugh about these things, but they are not comical. I think Romney actually has emotional detachment disorder, and the more we get to know him (if he is knowable in any meaningful sense), the more we may end up adding to the list.
Romney would be equally aloof and uncaring about factory farms, fracking, water or air pollution, pesticides, or anything else that might affect the health or safety of other living beings. If he treats his family dog like this when all his family is watching, imagine how he would treat the rest of us when no one he cares about is watching.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_detachment
Proof of the existence of god?
ReplyDeleteIf there is a president Mitt, god does not exist.
our president can crooooon. wow.
ReplyDeleteMrs Obama was asked about Romney's singing, and she said it was "beautiful! A song for our country that we should all be able to sing." Not a hint of snark. Well done, Mrs. O.
ReplyDeleteMitt's dog's story has legs. Unlike S Palin's hoax.
Sarah Palin: Personal Attacks Don't Faze Me
ReplyDeleteBut then why is your face so orange? On tonight's “O'Reilly Factor,” former Alaska Governorâ„¢ Sarah Palin explained how she's affected by the negative attacks leveled against her by… claiming she's not affected by them?
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mattcherette/sarah-palin-personal-attacks-dont-faze-me
So personal attacks don't bother her? Is that why she vindictively seeks revenge against all her “enemies?” Don't believe her. She's one part idiot, one part egomaniac and one part massive insecurity. Dangerous combination. She is the definition of FAIL.
To quote my Dad, 87: "Show me a man who mistreats a dog, and I'll show you a SON OF A BITCH."
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I think Seamus went to the "wonderful farm in the
ReplyDeletecountry where he could chase rabbits all day" . . .
after his harrowing ride with cold ass Mitt. I guess even Mitt the clueless had to clean up a probable doggy death for his children by telling them the dog had run away.
Then Ann had to complicate the tall tale by saying they sent their beloved pet cross country to live with an aunt. The story is bad enough but as always the goofy-assed cover-up is extremely ugly.
It must really bug the GOP, that there are Republican for Obama and Redneck for Obama groups, but there will never be Democrats for Romney or Progressives for Romney groups... ever.
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Mitt "I wear Magic Underoos!" wants to know if he'll be cool if he sings "Let the Eagle Soar?"
ReplyDeleteOur President is uber-cool! And Bo thinks so, too. He's not going anywhere.
Landslide!!!
“It’s important that you know exactly what you’re getting,” foreshadowing the horror movie that would become the McCain team’s experience with Sarah Palin:
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The Other Sarah: What’s wrong with Sarah Palin?
ReplyDeleteJanuary 15, 2010
Familiarity with Palin Breeds Contempt, Fear and Alarm
Sarah Palin’s much-anticipated debut on Fox News this week has not gone well. From O’Reilly’s condescension to Beck’s mocking of her paranoia, this has been a rough roll out for the ambitious, yet ignorant, and paranoid Palin.
...Is this ‘The Other Sarah” the McCain campaign references the “Frightening, Dangerous, Mentally Limited” side of Palin? We got our first glimpse of the Other Sarah during the Couric interview, when Palin froze and sneered at the same time. Panic in the snow or something.
Last July, as we sat stunned watching Palin’s breathy, near hysterical quitting speech in July of 2009, it was easy to wonder if a threatening phone call from party leaders hadn’t preceded Palin’s still unexplained mid-term resignation, as it was accompanied by behavior suggesting a nervous breakdown was imminent.
You have to admit, that speech made you nervous. You looked back on Nov 4, 2008 with a flutter in your stomach for just a brief moment. You had that tinge of outrage that they ran this person, but then you dismissed it. It had nothing to do with you anymore. You’re safe. She’s in Alaska. Or so you thought then.
Then came the summer of lies from Facebook and the constant discussion of her running in 2012 and suddenly you weren’t feeling so comfy. Suddenly you started paying attention to her and she seemed a little off. So, when Schmidt broke campaign omerta to reveal a chilling American Political Horror Story on 60 minutes this week, you were riveted. He rolled out the perfect storm of a desperate party, an unplanned VP pick, and no time to vet.
And so it came to be that by the time the McCain camp slowly realized the adorable pitbull, the hockey mom with spunk, was not the only Sarah, it was too late.
And “The Other Sarah” terrified them.
With a chilling detachment, Schmidt tells Anderson Cooper that he received a call from Palin’s debate prep team, saying the “Debate will be debacle of historic and epic proportions…she was not focused, not engaged, not participating in prep. She sat in a catatonic stupor, head down.”
“It was the Other Sarah who concerned them. Eyes glazed, not responding to questions, head down…” Staffers from all levels describe Palin as “mentally unstable…Unwilling to work… Mentally limited… Ultimately, unfit for office.”
Is this the Sarah we’re seeing on Fox News? The Other Sarah who can’t even answer a question about who her favorite founding father is? The Sarah who sat googling frantically in Glenn Beck’s greenroom after she saw his set?
What’s wrong with Sarah?
http://www.politicususa.com/en/other-sarah-palin
Jon Stewart’s Jaw Drops At Romney Not Being ‘Concerned About The Very Poor’
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I find myself getting angrier by the minute about this piece of work called Romney.
ReplyDeleteI watched him say on the news today, that he's going to "focus" on getting the 99% to vote for him.
NOT that he has a good plan for helping the middle class to claw its way back to life, so they'd WANT to vote for him.
No, that he's going to use his razzle dazzle to CON the rubes into supporting him, knowing how stupid they are, and how easily their opinion can be BOUGHT.
I sure hope Americans see through this fraud, and make him look foolish next November...maybe sending him from the scene so he won't pop up like jack-in-the-box again, four years later.
I don't see the problem. Anyone can see from the piture that the dog is having just as much fun as the people inside the car.
ReplyDeleteO/T: Anonymous is claiming to have direct evidence of Ron Paul's involvement with white supremacist groups:
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According to the Boston Globe, the dog, Seamus, kept running away from the Romney's home in Belmont, MA. Eventually, they gave the dog to Romney's sister who lived on a farm, where the dog would be free to run around.
ReplyDeleteI have had dogs, and I also had a next door neighbor who mistreated her dog. I can tell when a dog is happy with where he is, unlike the neighbor's dog who was put in the back yard all day and howled his head off. (Didn't the Romneys think to fence in their yard in Belmont?) Those 5 kids should have been walking the dog on a leash and learning how to be responsible for and care for another living thing.
We are supposed to judge our political candidates by their record instead of the GWB rule of wanting to have a beer with them. (That didn't work out well). The biggest complaint about Gingrich should be that he left Congress in disgrace, voted out by Republicans as well as Democrats, and having to pay $300,000. in fines. That's some record. He cheated; he used his position as Speaker of the House to make money while in office. (Alaska isn't the only place with a rule against that kind of thing). It is easier understand that Newt cheated on his wives, leaving two of them while they were sick. (What ever happened to "in sickness and in health?")Newt is a cheater.
It is easier to judge Romney by the way he treated his dog. He showed as much concern for Seamus as he now shows for poor people. We get it. It is harder to follow the complicated money trail as Bian acquired companies, cut them down, fired people, without appearing to care what happened to them. It is easier to see that he also didn't care what happened to his dog. Today Romney said that he doesn't care about poor people. We knew that. He doesn't seem to care about anything except making money, hiding it off shore, giving $100 million to his five sons so they won't have to work either, and Romeny wants to be president.
LAS VEGAS -- An advisor to Donald Trump says he will make a major announcement in Las Vegas tomorrow. Sources tell the 8 News NOW I-Team Trump will endorse Newt Gingrich.
ReplyDeleteAccording to Trump advisor Michael Cohen, "Donald J. Trump will be making a major announcement tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. at Trump International Hotel & Tower, Las Vegas, Nevada... The announcement will pertain to the Presidential race."
http://www.8newsnow.com/story/
16655301/breaking-news-trump-to-endorse-newt-gingrich-tomorrow#.TynWLmqWH8U.facebook
Re uncool for Mitt's singing: Not cool to get a word wrong: not "purple mountainS majesty" but "mountain." A small point, but it's all in the details, right?
ReplyDeleteI bet President Obama would not get a word wrong in this song.
Mittens gets glitterbombed...twice! and he ain't happy about it.
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Red State losing its mind over Romney's "very poor" remarks (Class Warfare Updates)
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The minute I saw that segment on Letterman I knew Romney was going to be toast.
ReplyDeleteI credit Letterman with destroying McCain's bid. He kept hammering at McCain standing him up.
Letterman owns a dog and as much as he jokes about it on TV, I'm sure in the privacy of his home he loves that dog. That "what is Mitt Romney's dog tied to now" segment is going to haunt Romney's campaign. Even if he gets the nomination, it will follow him like an albatross.
At least the dog didn't die.
Whether he ran off in Canada or was sent to California shortly thereafter, sorry, Ann, spin it all you want but you were lousy dog owners and your dog hated you. The dog was an inconvenience and they got rid of it and have tried to spin it every since.
NO ONE gives away a dog they've had for most of the dog's life so he can "retire" at a farm the last few years of it's life. You have a dog until the end.
Unless you're Mitt Romney.
I think the dog ran away in Canada. It says something about you when your dog hates you so much it runs away from you.
Apparently the dog did it on a regular basis in Massachusetts too. It was always running away and ending up in the dog pound. Well, I suppose if you kept it crated all the time, it would run away at every opportunity.
Spin Mitt Spin.
hey- look who supported Susan Komen's new CEO. Just sayin'
ReplyDeleteHope every dog that gets near him bites his ass! Fuck Romney!
ReplyDeleteThe Romney family did not need a dog, not with all those children. My boss has a whole passel of children and dogs come and go from his life because they get lost in the shuffle and no one has time to look after them. If he gets another dog I'm going to steal it. It wouldn't be the first time I've been involved in a "canine relocation" under cover of darkness :-)
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ReplyDeleteNoticed in the billo segment billo uses teh word 'debilitating' to describe what has happened to Palin 'via' the criticism. It came off as really passive aggressive, like he was pretending to be sympathetic but was really saying you look like shit you thin skinned half-crazed whining embarrassment to the cause. Time you find a new gig.
Anyone who does that to a dog must be emotionally shut down incapable of empathy and compassion.
ReplyDeleteThis is appalling.
ReplyDeleteThe newt and mittens?
This all they got?
Really?
They have become caricatures of themselves.
Hmmm. What about the
ReplyDeletePalin family animals?
So the wife is a nasty fucking liar too?
ReplyDeleteThe Romneys are worth a QUARTER OF A BILLION DOLLARS, and they are spending TENS of MILLIONS to be President...
W-H-Y?
The answer should scare the shit out of ALL of U.S.(A).
If you are rich it is because you are righteous. If you are poor, you are either dumb or wicked or both.
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Thank you SO much, 7:39!
I think you could just repeat that in your head as you watch Mitt Romney and THEN you will SEE why he does NOT CONNECT with others.
He is rightous; they are predominanly lazy and wicked...
how could he NOT look down his nose at them??
(Oh wow I cannot even BELIEVE that THESE are the GOP candidates!!)
To quote my Dad, 87: "Show me a man who mistreats a dog, and I'll show you a SON OF A BITCH."
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That. Is. Awesome.
Mitt "I don't concern myself with the very poor or any other of God's creations." As a Mormon, born into extreme wealth, Mitt has and is only concerned with maintaining and growing his own wealth. The hell with anyone who struggles, was not born into it, or who strives to get just a small piece of that pie. If God had wanted you to be rich, you would be.
ReplyDeleteJust the kind of arrogance the world needs in a leader: if God had wanted your country to be rich and peaceful, he would have made you America! Go to hell, Africa, and S. Korea, and Pakistan and Afghanistan! God hates you, and so does Mittens!
Then Ann had to complicate the tall tale by saying they sent their beloved pet cross country to live with an aunt.
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Maybe they'll claim that Seamus got "mono"...
(**waves**Hi Brisdull!!**)
Did Seamus have puppies while he had "mono" too?
Also, too, maybe Mitt is a "rookie" and didn't know that his PAC could pay for the care of the puppies??
(**waves**Hi Sarah!!**ugh. not even in JEST you disgusting sack of dried dog crap!!! F.O.A.D.)
Hey Sarah-
Whatever happened to the "puppy" you e-mailed about?
What’s wrong with Sarah?
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I read your snippet and thought that is so freaking good, I had to check it out.
Sarah Jones. Should have known...
She is Amazing!!
Matt Taibi, as well.
Big fan right here.
If you haven't seen this facebook page.
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About 20,000 people and dogs "like" this page. There is also a cat division.
Gryphen and friends,
ReplyDeleteOff topic, but please visit my new Sarah Palin blog. You guys will love it!!
Forgot to add link to my new Sarah Palin blog:
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At c4p, they reprinted a story from the "Onion". None of the commentators seem to understand that the Onion is satire. haha.
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This is just one more gaffe in a series of personal anecdotes that show how detached and inhumane he is. Sort of reminds me of when he said his sons were "serving their country" at a time of war, by "driving the campaign bus, helping me get elected": Romney in 2008
ReplyDeleteThere's also the possibly that Mitt pink slipped the pooch but told the kids that Seamus ran off. A "Seamus, you're fired" scene.
ReplyDeleteIf you look at Laura Bush, Cindy McCain, Willard's submissive spouse, and Mrs. Newt III, they all look like some sort of Stepford Wives.
ReplyDeleteIf you look at Willard's spawn, they look like the stars of Village of the Damned and Children of the Damned.
They all scare the beejezus out of me!
Look at them here:
http://tinyurl.com/86hxygs
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When this whole thing started and I read the article that had been published in the Boston paper, I wondered about one thing.
ReplyDeleteThe article either said or implied that the Romney car was filled with kids and luggage, even in the way back. Well, IF there was luggage, why wasn't THAT strapped to the roof and the dog ride inside? The whole thing never made any sense to me from the way it was writtened.
ANON at 9:51
ReplyDeletehehehe "canine re-location program"
that made me giggle, I think I was about 11 when I snuck out in the night to steal a mistreated dog down the road :)
anon at 1:41 am
ReplyDeletewe might visit if we had a name of the sight :)
Any normal family man, would have put the luggage on the top rack of the car, and let the dog sit in the car with the children. Simple.
ReplyDeletethis seamus story really upsets me, as our family has a setter. they are the sweetest, most friendly, dumbest dogs on the face of the earth. they love their people families. they really mourn when their family is away and rejoice when they are back. ours has to be put in a crate whenever we go anywhere as she freaks out. whines and cries very loudy when she is in distress, if not in her comfy box. she likes car rides, but we don't strap her on top of our vehicle. she rides with the other kids in the back;o)
ReplyDeleteWoops! Here's my new Sarah fun blog. Njoi, and comments are welcome:
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PS -- the same night I started my new Sarah blog I also kicked off fun-blogs for Mitt and Newt -- ya gotta be fair, right?
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RIP, Seamus
ReplyDeleteI have to agree with those who believe Mitt swacked Seamus in the head with a tire iron and tossed him off the highway. There's too many versions, and none of them make sense. Dogs don't run away when they're treated like family members, unless, of course, we're talking about the Palins. One look at Chucky's house of stuffed animal carcassas, and any dog would bolt.
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Congratulations to David Letterman on 30 years of making people laugh on television!