There seems to be quite some outrage coming from the left (fake of course) about something that happened in… 1983. The NYT reports:
An example of Mitt Romney’s crisis management skills has turned into something of a political problem for the Republican presidential contender.
Romney placed his family dog, an Irish setter named Seamus, into a kennel lashed to the top of his station wagon for a 12-hour family trip from Boston to Ontario in 1983. Despite being shielded by a wind screen the former Massachusetts governor erected, Seamus expressed his discomfort with a diarrhea attack.
Now the story, recounted this week in a Boston Globe profile of Romney, has touched off howls of outrage from bloggers and animal rights activists even though it was presented in the story as an example of Romney’s coolness under trying circumstances.
Massachusetts animal cruelty laws specifically prohibit anyone from carrying an animal `in or upon a vehicle, or otherwise, in an unnecessarily cruel or inhuman manner or in a way and manner which might endanger the animal carried thereon.
‘Ingrid Newkirk, president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, told Time magazine’s ”Swampland” blog’: “If you wouldn’t strap your child to the roof of your car, you have no business doing that to the family dog!”
Well, that’s a stupid remark. I would not put my child on the leash either. I would also not force my child to go to the toilet outside.
Romney’s defense: “He scrambled up there every time we went on trips. He got it all by himself and enjoyed it.”
Well, it’s a nice defense, I actually tend to believe it, but that’s beside the point here. The point is that Romney should not defend himself at all. He should tell Steve Benen et al that they should get a life. He should have laughed out loud when asked about it / when the controversy broke, and ignore the attack, which is stupid beyond belief.
This is – seemingly – how desperate the left is these days.
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