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GEORGETOWN, SC -- As many may know, Newt Gingrich is an animal lover. But Sunday night he appeared doubtful that one of his Republican rivals enjoys the furry friends as much.
“I am a big pet lover, yes,” the former House Speaker told reporters today in the Palmetto State. “I actually think it is fun to have animals. I think it is fun to like your pet enough to actually be near them.”
These comments came after Gingrich was asked to comment on Mitt Romney’s treatment of his dog a few years back – Romney reportedly put his family dog, Seamus, in a cage affixed to the top his car while traveling with his family on a vacation.
“Well, I just would rather not have been in a kennel all the way to Canada, personally,” Gingrich said at the Land’s End Restaurant after a town-hall event.
The Speaker notably did not discuss Romney by name during either of his events today and only did so when asked by reporters.
The Gingrich campaign released a web video just last week, "For the Dogs,” that dug up this controversial topic from the last campaign cycle and included it in a montage of “moderate Mitt’s greatest hits.”
Several weeks ago, Gingrich himself even launched a website dedicated to animals: petswithnewt.com. He has also on several occasions frequented zoos throughout the country.
While some did chuckle at the question posed to the Speaker this afternoon, Gingrich agreed that Romney’s treatment of his family pet adds to the narrative about the former Massachusetts governor.
“I think there are many characteristics that come out in the course of a presidential campaign from the use of words like ‘I like firing people’ which didn’t mean he liked firing people but he said “I liked firing people’ which sounds like I liked firing people even though it wasn’t…. to putting a dog on the top of a car for 9 hours,” Gingrich said. “I mean all these different things paint a picture, all of us have pictures and the Governor has to figure out whether or not that picture is electable. I wouldn’t want to debate Barack Obama with that in my background.”
Gingrich and Romney will participate in the next GOP debate Monday night in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina – the first time they have shared the stage together since Romney’s commanding win in the New Hampshire primary last week.
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What would you expect from "Malibu Mitt" ? He saw nothing wrong with what he did ...And this guy will control the nukes ..If he wins .
Sheez ... dogs have 220 million olfactory receptors in their noses. When put in the car with a bunch of humans what dog has not ever wanted anything more than to stick his head out the window.
Dog's greatest sense is smell, it's what they love to do. The nose rush in a crate on top of the roof at 70 MPH has to be a great trip.
If you shampoo the dog before you put him in the crate on top ... when you get there he is good to go ..... happy, clean, refreshed and incredibly fluffy.
Wind - win - win situation .... (well except for Feisty who has no one to blame her car farts on.)
About the debate with Obama over this?
Better to put the dog on the car roof than throw the middle class under the bus.
Newt also recommended (in 1994) taking children of poor parents (on welfare) and putting them in orphanages. He would treat animals better then he would treat children in poverty.
It's good to see Newt , having his ego put in its place....and it seems like he doesn't like too much...
I can't stand Newt. I think he is a racist jerk...BUT that doesn't make what Romney did any less disturbing.
I already wondered if the man had a soul, and now I have my answer. Many dogs are prone to motion sickness. My childhood Shetland Sheepdog almost always got sick on car rides. I just picture this poor dog, strapped to a roof for HOURS and sick to his stomach. Then instead of showing some compassion and letting the poor thing inside, he decides to "hose" him off and pop him right back up there for the rest of a TWELVE hour ride.
I already thought the man had no core principles, and now I don't even think he is very nice. I don't trust anyone that treats animals badly. Then he lied as usual and made it worse. He said the kennel was "airtight". If it was airtight, the dog would have died from lack of oxygen. He makes me sick.
Two things disturb me about the dog in the crate thing, once you get past the "putting the dog in the crate on top of the car" in the first place part......the dog got ill, yet he put the dog back in the crate on top of the car and continued on. That clinches it for me that Mitt is a pschycopath with no feelings for any living creature. the 2nd part that is disburbing, if he is so wealthy, why not rent a larger vehicle ......OR.....just board the dog .....OR........hire someone to stay with the dog, like a housesitter? I have tried all 3 of these solutions for my pets and I am just a middle class, paycheck earning, peon. what's the matter with this picture ? this guy will sell us all to the chinese!
And remember Romney did this like 30 years ago...... and this is no Chappaquiddick...
If that's the worst thing he did, that ain't that bad. Remember LBJ picking his dog up by the ears???
What happened to the dog, btw. I'm assuming it was ok afterwards??
I have heard the cage he used was airtight? So if it had been a plastic bag instead of a box or cage would the dog have made it to the end of the vacation? Why haven't we heard from animal rights activist about his abuse of animals? I have also heard that letting your dog hang it's head out the window of a moving car is not good because dogs don't realize their eyes are drying and blink.
@bob-1805084
A plastic bag will do the same thing. Get in one and see how long you survive. He said the cage was airtight!
@confussed: guys, think about it. No maker of dog cages would make one that is air tight. These containers are designed keep the dog safe and protected, not seal them in with freshness and all their natural juices. Of course the thing was not actually air tight. The dog was just well enclosed and protected.
Lets try and use just a little critical thinking OK.
This begs more questions than answers.
If the kennel is 'close' to airtight, then why did Mutt Romney need to build a wind screen. It sounds more like it was one of those wire cages.
If the kennel was 'close' to airtight and so well covered, how did the dog crap make its way out of the kennel? Was Seamus THAT accurate?
If the kennel was so well protected and 'close' to airtight, WHY did Mutt Romney not have to wash out the kennel as well as wash the dog?
If the kennel was that well protected, he would have had to remove it from the vehicle in order to wash it.
So guess what. Mutt Romney is lying. It was a simple metal cage with no protection except for the 'windshield'.
Maybe people should be asking Grinch about how he's treated his ex wives instead of asking Romney how he's treated his pets.
I wonder where our kids get the idea that if we tear down our competitors it might make us look better?
The amazing thing about the GinGrinch is that after being fined and kicked out of Congress for "Ethics Violations" , this man is still part of the Republican Presidential conversation............. People seem to have a short political memory anymore.................
Come on Guys,
Get real - No kennel is airtight! But they are certainly not wind-blown proof either. I have 3 dogs and I travel with 2 of them all the time. Imagine having all the windows of your car rolled down for the entire (many hours) trip, and no one will roll them up. Dogs have some of the same wants and needs that we do. I say I travel w/ 2 dogs because one of them gets travel sick. Sounds like Mitt's dog gets travel sick too. I leave my 3rd dog at home just because he gets sick. He certainly likes it better at home than going Bye-Bye (throwing up) in the car. I've traveled w/ dogs all my life, and I have never (NEVER) seen any owner pack their dogs on the top of their car! I say he's a piss poor owner for treating any animal like that. Hey Mitt (SunnyBoy), get a conscientious- will you please!
This isn't "petty and insignificant". It shows character, or lack of it. Likewise, Newt's treatment of his ex-wives shows character or lack of it. And both men have said or done things that, to me, make them ethically unfit to be President of the United States.
About the dog: Kennels are often used to housebreak dogs because a dog will generally not po op where he or she lays. Stress or anxiety will cause a dog to po op in a cage. I don't think there is a vet out there who would propose strapping a kennel to the top of a car for hours on end, and many would consider this animal abuse pure and simple. This was atop a car for approximately 12 hours at highway speeds. That's not the same as letting your dog stick his head out of the window when you drive a couple of miles down the road.
Newt is bringing this up to destroy Romney. He knows he is done. But he despises Romney so much he wants to take him down with him.
Gotta love it! Rightwingers eating their own. What a gaggle of clowns.
Personally, although I was voting for Cain before he dropped out of the race, I do not see what the big deal about the "dog cage" is. It actually is safer for the animal and for passengers! Consider whether or not the dog is rambunctious. If so, the dog is a driving hazard. I have a driving hazard because one of my dogs gets so excited riding that she has several times tried to climb under my leg while I was driving! Consider also what could happen to both dog and passengers with a dog in the car.
You get into an accident. The car is stopped by the collision but everything inside not tied down continues flying forward at the same speed as the car was traveling (75 mph is a common speed limit on such trips). That means that you would have a dog flying inside the vehicle at about 75 mph through the vehicle. The dog would be severely injured as well as anyone who was hit by the flying dog. Even if the dog missed the driver or front seat passenger, the dog would hit the front seat, bounce, and potentially continue flying toward the windshield at slightly slower speeds, hitting the windshield at somewhere between 65 and 75 mph.
Even if the dog was hooked to a seatbelt the flight would pull on the dog's neck at 75 mph, most surely injuring the dog. On the other hand, a dog in a kennel strongly mounted to the roof has very limited mobile distance and the dog would not be severely injured in a front-end collision, and also would not contribute to further injury of passengers and driver.
So long as the dog was let out for a walk every few hours along the way the dog would be fine and everybody (dog included) would be safer. Personally, I see what Romney did as a smart decision regarding the safety of both his family and his dog. At least Romney doesn't blast his dog with second-hand smoke (dogs can get cancer, too) like the current Commander-in-Chief did!
And, even if you smoke outside, you still bring the particulates inside with you and continue to pollute both the inside air and those around you with smoke particulates even after smoking outside. The current Commander-in-chief endangered his family and dog every day with his toxic, smoking particulates.
http://thestressoflife.com/smoking_outside_may_not_protect_.htm
(Note: I realize that Michelle Obama claims that her husband quit smoking sometime last year, but I also know that many smokers sneak a light here and there during the quitting process. If he truly did quit, then good for him! Notwithstanding, there still were years of second-hand smoke exposure to his children and dog, the results of which may not be seen for years).
And, as to right-wingers eating their own, somebody doesn't remember the war between the Clinton and Obama camps. The Obama 'Birther' nonsense had its origins amongst those of the Clinton camp. FYI. :)
DCPYLE, you are an obsolute moronic imbacile trying to justify this atrocious behavior!!!
Romney lacks credibility in soooo many areas - the dog situation is just the tip of the iceberg. He has sent more jobs to China than all the other candidates running. And, now he kowtows to the religious right. Why would anyone vote for this moron (and yes, I said moron, - not mormon. I don't care about his religion).
Remember that Romney believes all of us (the non-mormons) are already destined for hell. There is no way around it unless we are baptised a mormon. This is why he really has no use for any other humans except mormons, since we are just tinder for the hell fires. Remember this when you consider electing this man to govern you. I suppose dogs are of no matter either since they have no souls and cannot be baptised a mormon. Burn, Fido!
OneOfTheMany,
Jesus Christ! I didn't actually consider that!! Kind of speaks major volumes towards his dog handling abilities!!!
I wonder when the last time he had to knock on doors early Sunday Morning was before he got the high-sign from Above?
Garcher, I own two dogs. We treat them better than most people treat their animals. But, I just don't see how putting a dog in a kennel cage is all that bad a thing if there are safety concerns with the animal. People stick their dogs in kennel cages for airline flights all the time. It seems the only difference is that Romney is a political candidate so his putting a dog in a kennel cage for travel is a bad thing while everybody else who does it is just fine in your book.
So, if I am such a "moron" why not explain yourself and why it is that putting a dog in a kennel for safety reasons is a bad thing. Please explain to me why it is that it is OK to endanger the life of your pooch by allowing it to fly through a vehicle at over 65 mph and cause injury to itself and to members of your family who are passengers but not OK to put the animal in a situation where there is less chance of harming it in the event of an accident?
Sure, a rolling accident could possibly prove fatal to the pooch but it is more likely that the kennel would be ejected and the dog would sustain minor injuries from such a scenario, being protected by the shell of the kennel cage. Or, would you rather see your pooch splattered all over your windshield in event of an accident? If any one is a moron, you are.
I know many Mormons. They don't believe that. You are confusing Mormons with staunch Evangelicals, who do believe that everybody but they are going to eternal hell. Mormons don't even believe in a hell of literal fire. Mormon scriptures also imply that even dogs and other forms of life have spirits and are souls.
And, yes, I have a whole collection of them going back to the very first editions, too, just like I do for Islam, Judaism, and quite a few other '-isms' out there.
If you want to disagree with other peoples' religions, fine. But, don't lie about them or their beliefs. Or, at least try to know what someone really believes before making claims about their beliefs that are the height of ignorance.
For the record, search around the threads I have posted in. Muslims, Jews, Mormons, etc.--I defend them all when I see B.S. spoken of them and their beliefs. :)
OneOfTheMany may have confused Mormons with Jehovahs, but the point remains valid. Judgement of others by Men claiming Divine Knowledge and writing their own Book to support that theory/belief is questionable.
I threw in the Sunday door knocking as a joke. The Mormons also witness, but are more regularly seen in their white shirts/ties/black long pants and bike helmets as they ride their appointed rounds, usually in pairs...and also have some pretty bizarre scriptures which would have to hold the Bible invalid if true, according to their own beliefs.
Mitt Romney: He'll treat you like a dog, and then you'll get hosed.
But they don't normally attach the kennel cage to the OUTSIDE of the airplane for 20 hours!
And if you're Mitt Romney, you use that as an excuse to dodge the draft and avoid military service.
We don't need another chicken hawk like Dick Cheney (six student deferments to avoid serving in Vietnam).
Where the H are the PETA people on this? Is it okay because Romney is their guy? Okay because he's a politician? Dog on top of car - don't do it! Dog in airtight cage on top of car - don't do it! Travel 9 hours with dog on top of car in airtight cage - double H NO! If you REALLY love the dog you don't do it. If you CARE AT ALL about the dog you don't do it. Only if you DON'T REALLY CARE would you even consider it - but you still wouldn't do it. And at some point during considering doing it, wouldn't you ask yourself if it was even legal? Apparently dogs have no rights accorded them in the world of Romney.
This guy Romney thinks whatever he believes in or decides to do is a-ok. It's not.
1. It is amazing how the length of time grows with each telling of the story by critics of a political candidate. Hint: Neither Massachusetts nor Vermont are 20 hours from Canada. I used to live in Massachusetts so I know better than to believe that sort of claptrap about 20 hours to Canada. Just watch the time expand to 48 hours with the next retalling of the story! :)
2. Ever seen the inside of a cargo hold? Were you aware that this area is not as well pressurized and temperature controlled as is the cabin and cockpit? Are you aware of how caged animals are treated by cargo handlers? I would NEVER subject an animal to the inside of a cargo hold for overseas trips knowing what I do and seeing what I have.
3. Are you aware of the safety hazard an active Irish Setter with diarrhea poses in a vehicle full of passengers? Have you even so much as seen a real Irish Setter and been around it? They can't sit still for very long if left unconfined. That Romney even took the time and had concern enough to put up a windscreen shows his care for his dog given his circumstances at the time. Note: The windscreen wasn't really necessary as these dogs love to jump into the front seat onto either the passenger's or driver's lap and hang their heads out the window with the wind ramming air into their noses at high speeds. They aren't always the smartest dogs in the universe.
notsojingo,
You still are dead wrong about the Mormons and their views. While they do acknowledge problems with the Bible (everyone who studies the Bible in-depth from the perspective of the original languages knows that there are problems with it in various places, including thousands of variant readings to faulty manuscript transmission in about 40% or so of the text at the very least), the official Bible text of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a.k.a. "The Mormon Church" is the same text of the 1769 Blayney Revision of the King James Bible that many other Christians in the United States use.
The Mormon view of the role of their other scriptures is as a corrective for the problem passages of the Bible as well as a support for the majority of the Bible and its teachings, the Book of Mormon serving as a second witness of Jesus Christ and his divinity. Their Doctrine and Covenants is a third witness, when you think of it and follow its intent to its logical conclusion, to the continued existence of Jesus Christ and his being God in nature. Anyone who has read that text all the way through cannot help but be struck with all the times that Jesus is called God, Lord God and the like throughout, and that he speaks in the first person, supporting much of the Bible.
As to Mormons judging others and condemning them all to an eternal hell you cannot come away with that view after reading their texts. They believe that the majority of mankind will eventually merit a kingdom of glory in heaven. See their Section 76 of the Doctrine and Covenants and/or their Gospel Principles manual, if you don't believe it. All of these also are available online on their official website.
The Mormons are among the most for freedom and rights of people that you ever will meet--unless someone else's rights means the potential for trampling of their own rights and freedom to practice their religion as they see fit (and they have had their rights trampled upon many times by the US government). Read their Articles of Faith if you don't believe it. The text is available for free on their official website.
Hallelujah and Amen, Brother!
I'm SOLD!!!
Yes, you will be sold--after Obama gets done with America (unless he has more of a paradigm shift after thinking things through a little better).
So far as the religion goes, don't take my word for it. Study their texts for yourself. You may still disagree with their teachings but you won't be able to lie about them in good conscience (of course, many Obama supporters have lost much of their consciences if they vote for him again so I know better than to place faith in your desire actually to learn about other peoples' religions using their own texts).
I know it can get expensive studying other religions using their original texts (hundreds to thousands of dollars to obtain original texts of Judaism, Islam, Christianity and otherwise, but which I have done anyway to better understand people and why they think the ways that they do) but for the subject of the Mormons many of their original texts are available for free via public and private libraries, the World Wide Web, and older LDS Institute of Religion libraries nearby many colleges in America--so there is little excuse for ignorance in that department.
Come to think of it, notsojingo, you are wrong about the Jehovah's Witnesses and their beliefs, too. While the wiki article is pretty much accurate, your seeming interpretation of them as being confused with the Mormons because Jehovah's Witnesses believe everybody but themselves are to be damned to an eternal hell also is dead wrong.
They also do not believe that the vast majority of mankind will be damned to the second death, and just about everyone will be given a second chance to serve "Jehovah God" for a thousand year test, believers and non-believers alike. Those who pass will continue to live forever on a paradise Earth, the vast majority of Jehovah's Witnesses included. Those who fail the test will die again and remain dead forever in the grave, experiencing neither torment nor pain for all eternity.
It wasn't 'reportedly'...
In Willard's own words; 'Seamus enjoyed it'!
You also omitted the FACT Seamus showed his displeasure by crapping down the side of the car & Willard hosed him off at a gas station before shoving up back up there! lol
Jesus Christ, shut up. Both parties play this crap. Stop hounding on just one, when both play the same fiddle.
I don't know who you think died & left you in charge, but, here's a little hint - I don't answer to YOU!
I'll comment when I want to, about what I want to, where I want to...
Don't like it? LEAVE!
They dont call her "Feisty" for nothing. LOL!
She should have added the adjective "annoying" to her name. Same goes with all these party shills.
Ranman, were not talking about both parties here. this is a republican talking about a republican, maybe you missed that part huh?
Feisty does this all the time though. Wait for a Democrat to pull something along the lines of this, and she'll never utter a peep. She's always seeding articles like this, but pretends like it doesn't happen on the other side of the aisle. She's nothing more than a drone.
Huh?
However, I am flattered by all of the attention you are paying to me! ;o)
I'm sorry to inform you, the Feisty Fan Club is chock full, if you would like I can put you on the waiting list! lol
You betcha - I'm not going to take @!$%# from some two bit uneducated troll! ;o)
Who's trolling?
That would be YOU
newt is quite the dog himself. Ask any of his ex-wife's. Just ask his current wife, ever notice newt is never alone. The little woman is there all the time.
The thing that gets to me is how there seems to be nothing better to attack him on than how he treated his dog a "few years ago".
I'm not a Republican, and I really don't care one way or another who wins their nomination, but if I was I'd rather hear more about what a candidate intended to do to actually win the presidential race if nominated.
Well Smitty, not all the time, she has a standing doctors appointment weekly to check for fleas and STD's...lol Just can't trust old Newt around them younger skirts, she knows it, you can bank on that.....peace
That would be Feisty. Ranman, I suggest that you stop feeding the troll.
His wife and children had no problem with him mistreating the family dog like this...how would HE treat the shrinking middle class? This also says quite a bit about how his wife and children Don't think.
On a silly note....The suggestion that Newt might still be inclined to be a skirt chaser could give me bad dreams. Surely there isn't enough power or money in the world for that to be successful.
DaveWH
best answer yet!!
Smitty-4183671
newt is quite the dog himself. Ask any of his ex-wife's. Just ask his current wife, ever notice newt is never alone. The little woman is there all the time.
I was an accountant for a restaurant and the owner dumped his second wife for 3rd wife - Vicki & Vicki never left his side - ever. My thought is that they(Vicki & current Mrs Newt) knew/know that they can easily be divorce #3.
As far as Mitts dog goes - it really was a crappy thing to do to a dog, especially after the dog pooped all over himself. Seamus was hosed off like the car and never was given another thought. The dog was dismissed, just like the employees he or his company Bain has fired. They were dismissed like they were nobody. I'm sorry but Mitt & Newt can talk all they want about bringing back this country like it was 4 years ago, but that's the problem who wants the country like it was in 2008 or in 1980 when Reagan was elected - neither years were not the best for the Middle Class. What a pair!
That is right Joyce, reagan was no hero he hurt the middle class. That makes Newt a phoney and Romney is definitely a phoney.
Dave, this is about a lot more than how Romney treated his dog decades ago. It is about who Romney is as a person. Most people treat their dogs better than they do the people in their lives. Romney was clueless about his dog, and he is clueless about people. And it's not the ONLY thing that Newt and others can drum up about Romney; it's just one thing that is very telling.
Agree DaveWH, though I expect little is really known about Romney by many. He has spent how many years practicing his run for the White House? His speaches are coached for sure. Probably spends the better part of his time on this practice.
What are his views? Recently in Florida he said Obama's foreign policy fails cause it doesn't go far enough with regards to a nuclear Iran. Oh boy Bush 3.
He said he cared about your job more than his, ah Bain?
He said the government spends too much. I guess since we need our industrial military complex to deal with Iran, that means cuts in social programs.
Ah, he brought up vacationing in National Parks with his kids, though I expect like most Republicans we can do away with EPA. Well enough said, this conversation has definitely gone to the dogs...
A Democrat did something worse than this. He exposed his pooch to second-hand smoke and inhaled particulates from smoking outside brought in with him, and exposed his children to the same for years before finally 'quitting.' It has been known for years that second-hand smoke also kills but only just this last year decided to quit? :)
streeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetch
And he LIED about it! If a person lies about small things, they will lie about BIG things, too.
Romney said the dog was in an "air tight container" and enjoyed riding n the roof of a car for 20 hours at a stretch. If the dog enjoyed it, and the container was "air tight", where did all the dog vommit come in the middle of the drive from that forced Mitt to stop and then led hm to decide to hose down the dog and the car both?
So is your ego........
Not a chance............
It is a stretch to correlate how Mitt had treated his dog and how he will govern as Commander and Chief.
I don't like Newt, but that was a funny line about Romney and his dog.
PS Bet PETA doesn't endorse Romney!
You have to admit phancy, Newt does pour the old whup-@$$ out when he needs to. Everytime he does it to Romney, Romney's polling data drops... LOL!
BB
When it comes to "snark", Newt is in a class of his own!!!! LOL
I just checked out the polls for Romney vs Newt... they are running neck and neck right now. Watch for some real serious activity from the Newt camp this week as we head into South Carolina next Sat
BB
Where's the Christian conservative choice of Santorum polling at?
just checked the 4 polls they have for south carolina...romney is a good 10 points ahead of newt in all 4 of them
Santorum is running behind. Right now it's Newt and Romney polling about even.
BREAKING NEWS ALERT: NBC news is reporting that Jon Huntsman is dropping out.
Now for the guessing as to where what support he had will go.
Buzzz probably to Romney.
With the events as is, don't count the chickens before they hatch.
My guess. Romney will lose a lot of evangelicals, but pick put the bulk of Huntsman group. Gingrich will also lose some evangelicals and pick up some Huntsman support. Santorum is probably going to pick up the evangelicals that Newt and Romney lose and might even pick up a few of the Huntsman group. Perry is unlikley to pick up Huntsman supporters, but might lose a few evangelical. Ron Paul will likely stay about the same.
Next out of the mix Perry. Most of his support would go to Santorum.
The annual Evangelical meeting in 2008 abstained from selecting a candidate. Ever heard the joke about the 2008 Republcian Primary. Republicans decided to go with a non-practicing Episcopalian over a Devout Mormon and a backslidden Baptist? That is why no selection in 2008. But in 2000 and 2004 they selected Bush. Evangelicals voted overwelmingly for Bush in both elections, and not so much for McCain.
Why would an evangelical vote for Newt, he's broken more than half the 10 commandants already and has a history of doing it, all the way from draft dodger to congress, to speaker, to business man advising Fanny & Freddy, to presidential nominee. What a jerk and how could any decent person ever vote for this swine. But I hope he wins, I know 51% of American voters could not be stupid enough to vote for Newt, not even republicans.
PeTA is in the business os mass euthanisation of domesticated dogs and cats. Doubt they'd say squat.
Even playing politics with your god damn animals? I'm sick of all these political pricks.
The sad part is there are probably people stupid enough to fall for all this crap and vote for Newt because he "loves animals." LOL, too funny.
Yeah, I know lots of people who strap their dogs to the roof of their cars and then hose them off when they crap themselves in terror, then strap them back up there. Seems like exactly the guy I'd want as president.
In other news, Michael Vick quoted as saying "the dogs just wanted to fight, they loved it!"
and I have seen dogs left and right become road kill after they flew out of the back of pick-ups..
Left and right wing dogs?
LMFAO!
Winning the GOP nomination is like a contest to see who can be the most popular person in an insane asylum.
Jimmy - you expressed it beautifully.
JimmySD - Winning the GOP nomination is like a contest to see who can be the most popular person in an insane asylum.
I love your line, I'd like to copy it to a friends FB page. Its the best line I have seen so far!
Um...media: there's a lot more to Willard Romney's inability to lead than how he treats his dog.
Now I'm nowhere close to being a fan of Mitt Romney, but seriously Newt. You should be the LAST person to have an opinion about backgrounds in a debate with Barack Obama.....
Now I'm nowhere close to being a fan of Mitt Romney, but seriously Newt. You should be the LAST person to have an opinion about backgrounds in a debate with Barack Obama.....
I know that's why I was praying that Newt would win the Nod, oh how fun those political commercials against Newt would be - he could easily be Swift-Boated or Obama-Boated. Though I thought Obama had no chance in 2012 - but I think he will have a tough time in November, but will win. I'm voting for him, he has done a lot I like and some I don't. But Mitt, OMG!
Just goes to show us what a heartless, psychopathic, slimeball that Mo Romney is. The dog was the family pet but it had to travel against the wind at the speed limit from MA to Canada.
If Mo Romney has that little regard for his family's pet dog..........he would have no regard for struggling Americans. He already had demonstrated countless times his dislike and contempt for the poor.
Now if that poor dog Seamus would have been a billionaire.......Mo Romney would have had a lip lock on some part of the dog.
LTC Rattus, USA, ret.
Haven't you heard, Romney is buying votes or just handing out money to anyone that is down on their luck. It's a long line, 297,000,000.need some sort of help or would qualify for help.
Romny reminds me of Bush II. He just wants to be president at all costs, he'll say anything, do anything to get elected. He's already a billionaire. Now he wants to be POTUS so Papa can be proud of him, who by the way tried but lost.
Except perhaps that Romney put up a windshield for the dog, meaning that your point is moot. Not so heartless when you consider the time and initiative it took to make the windshield and fit it to the car for the dog. He even took the time to clean off the dog and clean out the kennel cage when the dog had diarrhea. "Heartless" would have been to leave the dog in all his crap all the way to Canada like many other people actually would do and have done in similar circumstances.
And don't bother working the 'hose' angle, either. I have known and seen many people who regularly wash their dogs off with a hose. Above all else, try reading the article and some previous comments next time before responding. And, no, I was not planning to vote for Romney but may be left with little choice at election time.
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I am no supporter of Mitt Romney and will vote for him only if forced into it. My motto this year is "anybody but Obama and his promised taxation strategy."
My vote was going to go to Herman Cain--until he dropped out of the race after what the libs did to him and his wife.
...For the record... (notsojingo's inanity notwithstanding)
Good evening Bob,
Except for the Pats/Denver some pretty decent football this weekend.
YEAH, TEABAGGING TEBOW sent home to mommy it was a GREAT game. There is no more pleasure than to see Tebow lose and lose badly. The only thing that would have made it better is if Teabagging Tebow was taken off the field on a stretcher.
Jesus don't do American football. He does soccer and swimming. That is where Tebow erred.
Folks, I am a progressive. I am also friends with the Tebow family. Don't appreciate the comments. He is a nice kid. I also try to keep sports and politics seperate. Just like religion and politics. They just don't go together.
Someone forgot to tell Tebow that Jesus had $100 on the Patriots.
seperate or separate
I don't like Newt and think that what Mitt did was unacceptable and think that it is okay that Newt talking about it is okay. It is, after all, a political campaign. Throughout our history campaigns have been muck raking and dirty. All I do is sit back and giggle about how the GOPers are taking every opportunity to go after their opponents and especially the flavor of the day or Mitt which ever looks like they'll be the eventual nominee.
Let's ask Newt why he was chased out of Congress in disgrace.
Maybe somebody should shove Mitt in a cage, put him on the top of the car and burn rubber.... I hate the whole lot of America's politicians.... what an embarrassment. I can't believe old Newtie is still breathing.... for goodness sakes the guy is a friggin' dinosaur.
WOW, so the Giants won the game against the Packers? That's what I call an upset.
Newtie is jealous of Mitt's wealth. It is pure envy. Newtie made his money the old fashioned way: CORRUPTION and graft as a result of his powerful position as Speaker. Before that he was a Assistant non tenured History professor in a small school of third tier status. His income cannot be over 60K. So he came of money as a result of third world like politics. Romney made money the Real American way; investments, and smart moves. Newtie is probably envious that Romney has servants and domestic staff including illegals to do his work. Romney is a Prince and Newtie is a boorish new rich ostentatious person who wastes money buying baubles for his third wife. Romney is married to his FIRST and ONLY wife.
Roger- I agree Newt is jealous, but you forgot INHERITANCE, that's Romney's advantage!
Newt's biggest problems are his ethics violations history and how he treated and cheated on his wives. Do we really want somebody with that kind of history in the White House?
wow...if newt only treated wives and children as good as he supposedly treats his dogs I might buy this story....any man who would get a BJ from a two bit ho in front of his kids should not be throwing stones at anyone
when exactly did this happen? I've never heard of that one (and I'm pretty sure I would have, if it ever happened!) lotsa folks just repeat things their idiot friends tell them as if it were true, but...it aint...by the way, I'll be supporting Obama again, but telling lies and slandering people is just plain wrong, regardless of what a prick he may be
We had oral sex. He prefers that modus operandi because then he can say, 'I never slept with her.'" - Anne Manning (who was also married at the time.)
"We would have won in 1974 if we could have kept him out of the office, screwing her [a young volunteer] on the desk." - Dot Crews, his campaign scheduler at the time
[In the book] "Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them", [I] "found frightening pieces that related to my own life." - Newt.
"I think you can write a psychological profile of me that says I found a way to immerse my insecurities in a cause large enough to justify whatever I wanted it to." - Newt, speaking to Gail Sheehy.
"She isn't young enough or pretty enough to be the President's wife. And besides, she has cancer." - Newt, on his first wife.
"I don't want him to be president and I don't think he should be." - Newt's wife Marianne.
"If the country today were to move to the left, Newt would sense it before it started happening and lead the way." - Dot Crews, his campaign scheduler throughout the 1970s.t
""It doesn't matter what I do. People need to hear what I have to say. There's no one else who can say what I can say. It doesn't matter what I live." - Newt.
Kip Carter, his former campaign treasurer, was walking Newt's daughters back from a football game one day and cut across a driveway where he saw a car. "As I got to the car, I saw Newt in the passenger seat and one of the guys' wives with her head in his lap going up and down. Newt kind of turned and gave me this little-boy smile. Fortunately, Jackie Sue and Kathy were a lot younger and shorter then."
so dan robinson...please check your facts before posting counter bs...it just makes you look uneducated
What's the big deal with Romney? Chevy Chase did worse, remember?
The GOP is offering up Mitt as its sacrificial lamb for 2012. Come 2016, they are hoping they have someone better.
The GOP really isn't serious about winning this year. The field is weak and they know it.
This pretty much hits the nail on the head, I mean when you say its really the Republican Party running the show or who would be. Shades of Tammany Hall. Do you mean to imply that the Republican Party is really the party who would be running the Country and not the elected candidate. What puzzles me more is what does a millionaires party care about whether we have family values when it clearly does not care about its own values. Oh, I get it, this is just a way of getting the "moral majority" vote. Millionaires don't develop morals until they've made their first billion. There is a long list of them who decided that they needed to start some benevolent fund or another, especially when they realized they couldn't spend all of that money and morally their offspring didn't deserve most of it. Morals are developed early in life and stay with a person throughout his life, they don't come on all of a sudden to exploit a purpose. Morals of the same nature can be found in a man of twenty years old and they will essentially be the same at forty or sixty or eighty. A man who flipflops all over the spectrum at twenty will do the same at forty, sixty or eighty. Flipfloping makes millionaires faster than morals do a hundred to one. In business and politics its called back stabbing. For my money any man who would SELL HIS NAME to become President is a flipflopper. America doesn't need a flipflopper for a President. Pick the man who has not sold his name in the past. Your choice is very limited among the Republican candisates.
I would never put a dog in a cage and put it on the roof of my car but doing it to a naked Mitt is a smiley thought,lol.
He got his wealth and connections from his Father. He did parley it well, though, so I guess that is the New American Way...
At least he wasn't a lawyer!
notsojingo / hummbird et al - I know it is easier to accept our own limitations/failings by attributing someone else's successes to something other than hard work, intelligence and making the most of the opportunities presented. However, in an effort to infuse a little accuracy here I will go ahead and take the ego hit. Romney's dad made his money by turning around American Motors Co and then resigned to run for Governor of Michigan. Mitt grew up in a wealthy family but went to work for Bain Consulting after graduating from Harvard and later was asked to start Bain Capital because of his success in consulting practice. All of his money was made through this business- nothing to do with dad's money.
But don't let the truth get in the way . . .
His father did extremely well, Mitt didn't climb from the gutters to a Harvard Scholarship, he did well under his family's tutelage and connections and wealth, and maintained personal success level in business. He was groomed well as well as being a natural for the Corporate Raider work he did. When I said he parleyed well, this is giving him credit for such. He is also entirely out of touch with anyone below the Millionaire Circles he exist within(just as are most of these Politicians/Millionaires at the level he is). That is just the way it is.
And by far and away he is the least disgusting guy left in the Republican race, if you can call it a race, now that Huntsman is out. In fact, he is the Best Flopper yet! And he has a proven record of all the above. His Massachusetts Health Care Plan was supposed to be the model for the Obama Plan, a real deal killer for the Cons out there, but not insurmountable to those with such great hatred of the Current President. And none of that matters.
He will never beat Obama, unless Ron Paul goes Independent, and then anything might happen. I'd bet ya $10,000 on it right now!<s>
But which part is not the Truth to YOU?
Peace
Mitt and the Donald...men who started with millions...
Did anyone hear that Mitt's grand-dad and father were born in Mexico? I'm not saying it's true, I don't have sources - but the story goes Mitt's grand-dad had a bunch of wives and one of the kids from that "family" is Mitt's dad - who came to the US. My guess, if it's true, he's not saying it because it would highlight the fact that his grand-dad was a polygamist. Uh-oh...
And how does this have to do with the dog story? NOTHING!
Does that mean he will have to produce his birth certificate?
Sociopaths often abuse animals as an outlet for their deeply seated impulses, mainly because abusing humans has greater consequences. As children, they may start by pulling the wings from flies and burning ants with a magnifying glass. Later in life, they may enjoy firing people and killing off hapless companies in the name of profit.
Not that my father would have ever done it, but us kids would have been begging our Dad to let the dog ride inside with us, and just put the kennel on top. And that's what would have happened. One of six children!
What is all this words of war by supporters ? why don`t just say outright that Newt is for the dogs. Newt wood like to see Romney in the cage and give him a 9 hours ride to get his clear sense back, that is all he try to say.
The apples don't fall far from the tree..
" Dog-gone-it Mitt, lol
What is really worth noting is that the very tactics of distortion and fear and smear that the GOP has used so much in the past has come back to haunt them. "as you sow so shall you reap!" Keep it up Newt..its what that entire party does best!
Brother, you really have drank the koolaid.. I can't wait until the GOP nominee takes Obama's a$$ apart. "Uh, let me get this straight... you're going to diddle around on the pipeline decision until Canada decides to build it to the Pacific Ocean instead and sell the oil to China?!?!?!" "Uh, you think the way to get more Americans to participate in the Americian Dream is by crucifying the small business owners and investors who've already achieved it and giving the money to deadbeats and drug addicts?" This is going to be great fun to watch. The idiot has a <miserable> track record this time... and not event he Liberal Media Fan Club can save him...
You think all you have to do is refer to the small business b/s and everybody should look up to you. for your information all of the drug dealers on every corner in the country are small business persons. You need to put your mind in gear before engaging your mouth. Where do you think the bulk of the oil coming out of Alaska is going? There would not be as many "deadbeats"as you refer to the unemployed if Reagan and the Bushes had not out sourced all of our good paying jobs to Communist China and other slave labor countries. Get a life!
Hey Fed Up,
Why not come back to this forum during the 2nd week of Nov and tell us what you are thinking? So far, no Repub has enough popularity to win. It is a well known fact that Karl Rove is mustering his thugs to steal the election again. But this time he will not be allowed to do it. Cursed are those who fancy themselves invincible, and they will inherit nothing!
Sarita: Did Karl Rove hire acorn?