Roof ride shows lack of empathy.
Romney dog on roof snopes.
The new yorker featured a cartoon with rick santorum riding in romney s rooftop dog carrier on its cover last week.
The article pegged romney the 2008 republican presidential candidate and former governor of massachusetts as a family man father to five sons adoring husband and dog s not so best friend.
In the five years since the story was revealed new york times columnist.
It has to be mentioned that the mitt romney s dog on the roof story first surfaced in the boston globe in a chapter of a biographical series the newspaper published in 2007 when romney first ran for president.
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Romney had built a windshield for the carrier to make the ride.
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I keep hearing about mitt romney strapping his dog to the roof of a car for a 12 hour road trip.
Romney pulled over and hosed off the car then got back on the road with the dog still on the roof.
He took a dog carrier and attached it to the station wagon s roof rack built a special windshield and put his dog seamus into the carrier where the dog remained for the 12 hour trip.
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 their dog seamus rode in a carrier on the roof of the family s chevrolet caprice station wagon for the 12 hour trip.
Romney has not shown a similar sense of humor about the fact that he once strapped his dog s crate to the roof of the family station wagon for a 12 hour drive to canada during which the dog an irish setter named seamus suffered a bout of diarrhea.
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Where did the romney dog on the roof story come from.