Dog Seamus ‘Loved’ Trips Atop Family Car, Says Ann Romney
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Source: ABCNews.com
Seamus, Mitt Romney’s Irish setter who traveled with his young family strapped to the roof of their station wagon, “loved” those trips, despite once getting ill, Ann Romney told ABC’s Diane Sawyer in an exclusive interview. Seamus’ 1983 trip from Boston to a summer cottage in Ontario, Canada, inside a dog carrier lashed atop the family’s Chevrolet, has become a regular barb in Romney’s side and is routinely used by his critics to paint him as uncaring.
Mitt Romney told Sawyer that the Seamus attacks were the most wounding of the campaign “so far,” but Anne Romney insisted the dog loved traveling that way and looked forward to trips. “The dog loved it,” Ann Romney said. “He would see that crate and, you know, he would, like, go crazy because he was going with us on vacation. It was to me a kinder thing to bring him along than to leave him in the kennel for two weeks.”
Adding to the left’s narrative that Romney had little compassion for the animal is a detail from the 1983 trip that Ann Romney confirmed to Sawyer. The dog became sick, defecating all over itself and the windshield of the car, leading Romney to hose them both off before they continued on the drive to Canada. “Once, he — we traveled all the time — and he ate the turkey on the counter. I mean, he had the runs,” Ann Romney said, laughing as she explained how the dog got diarrhea.
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Well, now we know Ann Romney is clueless and a liar (yeah right, Seamus "loved" it, each and every time). Same old Mitt though: I'm running for office for Pete's sake, of course I wouldn't put the dog on the roof again!
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If not for the bad publicity? Heartless people. 
...who cares if the dog wanted to go on the trip or not!?!? What kind of poor judgement would put the dog on top of the station wagon for a 12 hour trip??? If she went along with that stupidity, there's no hope!
There's a hint for the Romney's...how common is it to see setter size dogs in carriers on the top of station wagons??
like us TRUE animal lovers do 
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route to Canada. I'm sure Seamus doggie loved it. Sure Ann, sure he loved it.
and I can tell you, that was the most neurotic, high-strung dog I ever took care of! I loved her so much, but honestly, she was kind of a diva, needing extra finesse and reassurance--as well as LOTS of attention.
And I can tell you, she would NOT have loved being tied on top of the car. And I would never have let my father do it (not that my dad ever would--he is an animal lover and would never be so heartless!) I would have refused to go on vacation if my family had made that rule!
But the sickest thing--and the RMoney's in a nutshell--is that they had their Louis Vuitton luggage with them, and they put that in the BACK SEAT!!!! So prestige material things over any live being. That's their MO!!!!!
Bastards!! 
Payback is a bitch!! 
substitute 'woman' for 'dog' and voila you have every rapist's excuse. and since the gop wants women to have about the same rights as dogs...
