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.
Romney dog gon roof.
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.
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.
But the tale of seamus the irish setter who got sick while riding 12 hours on the roof of mitt.
It happened more than a quarter century ago at the start of a romney family summer vacation.
But the story of his.
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.
In june 1983 the romney family left their belmont massachusetts home on their way to romney s parents cottage in beach o pines ontario for an annual vacation along the shore of lake huron.
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.
But the story of his putting his dog in a carrier on his car roof for a 12 hour family trip is spreading again on the internet and disturbs me the more i learn about it.
Their dog seamus rode in a carrier on the roof of the family s chevrolet caprice station wagon for the 12 hour trip.