I think we should put Mitt Romney in a little box with a mesh opening and strap him on the top of his car for 12 HOURS straight with only ONE stop to eat and have a poop break. Let's see if Mitt enjoys 40 mph wind whipping at his face for 12 hours miles and catching bugs in his teeth.

Animal cruelty.

Give me a break. Dogs ride in the backs of pickup trucks all the time. For that matter, so do people. And Charles Gibson says, "I would no sooner put my child in a kennel on the roof, than I would my dog." Huh? Have you ever flown with your dog on a plane? Ever fed your child dog food, made him sleep outside, make him beg for a biscuit?

If this is what qualifies as serious journalism these days, Romney doesn't have much to worry about.

Dogs ride in the backs of pickup trucks all the time. For that matter, so do people.

Twelve hours at a stretch? And this was the roof, not within the confines of the back of a pickup truck.

Must be a Mormon thing I guess. He says the dog liked it. Good thing we had a dog-whisperer running for President. It will help when the not-so-attractive interns come running to beg for their biscuit.

Regard,
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Um, okay.

"Give me a break. Dogs ride in the backs of pickup trucks all the time."

Yer a fucking idiot. There's no comparison between riding in the bed of a pick-up and riding in a dog crate on top of the car...especially for 12 hours. Someone needs to tie yer dumbass to the top of a car and ride around fer 12 hours...then maybe you'll figure it out...


...but not likely.

Ah Dave. What would we do without people like you around, to tell us what's humane and what's not?

Lemme ask you--when you see people boarding a plane for a 12-hour flight with the dogs in the little cages, do you call PETA? Or is this just another example of your selective outrage.

Because that's what I think. Put any dog in a car, and he'll be sticking his snout out the window. Dogs don't sweat, you know. Or maybe you didn't.

Ah well. You know best. Thank God for liberals! You know everything!

"...when you see people boarding a plane for a 12-hour flight with the dogs in the little cages..."

They don't tie 'em to the top of the plane, asswipe.

Ah well. You know best. Thank God for liberals! You know everything!

The ultimate deflection of a faux "conservative".

Romney shows his hand. I'd suggest the less you pay attention to it RiR the better and this thread just fades away. It's things like this, the Dean Scream or the Senator Allen "macaca" moment, that sink political fortunes.

That would be a shame for Romney. I'm hoping to see him drag a few needed votes away from the front runner and put this into more of a horse race than the crowning of an ass.

Regards,
etc.

They don't tie 'em to the top of the plane, asswipe.

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If I'm a dog, and I'm going to be spending a few hours stuck in a little box, I'd rather get some breeze, the occasional walk and some water, than be stuck in with a big pile of suitcases and other yapping dogs and cats on an aircraft with changing cabin pressures.
Thanks for answering my question, though--you didn't do a damn thing. You're just like every other hard-on on the DR--you pretend this is abuse or that is, and that you'd do something about it.
But you wouldn't.

I took a dog on a plane.
Once: 1968