For Heilman:  I was a new driver in 73 and seat belt laws had been in effect for years.

Wait, Romney isn’t being honest about something?  Whaaaaa?

This just blew his chances in South Carolina  I’ve heard there are some big Tycoons that don’t want Mitt to be president and will do everything in their power to not let that happen.  

The story should be put down.

Eh, removed.

Why would anyone care what rachal madcow says?

I guy that wants to be president straps his dog in a container on the top of a car for a long drive. The dog messes up the back window of the car. Romney stops, washes it off and keeps going… That’s amazing.

What’s more important:  47 stories of corruption, dishonesty, and incompetence in the Oval Office or a dog on the roof of the car story from 30 years ago……hmmmm….let me think a minute.  Oh you say Rachal Madcow thinks this dog story is important?

now that olberman has gone to current…she is probably the smartest journalist on tv today…you would be wise to heed what she says …idiot

Seriously, how is this a news story AT ALL in an election? Literally, this is the biggest non-issue ever. If  someone makes a decision based on this story, they are brain damaged.

Romney made thousands of American middle class workers feel just like Seamus did … in the wind and defecating themselves at the thought of Bain at the wheel.

Romney is non-viable candidate once Obama gets on him over Bain’s predatory business model.
He will be destroyed by Obama when Obama starts handing out cheap mortgages and student loan forgiveness.  Obama will kill Romney with horror stories of Bain capitol predations.

http://www.kingofbain.com/

Ron Paul is the only candidate who can defeat Obama.

He sounds like Clark Griswold!  Rusty, get me the hose and I’ll rinse off the car.

How original. Did you spend even 4 seconds to develop that brilliant comment?

It’s 3 seconds more than it deserved.

Oh please let me strap Mitt on top of my fourbie and bounce around the outback mid summer! Pleaaaaaaaaaaase!

Unelected officials have taken over Washington and are orchestrating the daily news. 99% of the comments and replies you’re reading online come from an NSA software program spamming the internet. Comments are created before the stories are ever reported. The oldest, first, highest, best, and most popular rated comments are all propaganda. They are conducting Psy-ops (psychological operations) for domestic spying. They have 1000′s of handles and are determined to bury the truth and attack anyone leaking it.

The next election is shaping up to be as big of a sham as the last. Do you know why Sarah Palin’s bus tour was really canceled? Do you know why she stayed 30 miles away from the second debate and chose the death of Steve Jobs to announce that she’s not running? Know what leaked out? Sarah Palin and Cain aren’t in the race for the same reason, the truth leaked out. The truth is linked to in my name. Cowardly attacks covering up the truth are welcomed.

Really? A guy running for President with common sense like that. My 15 year old niece would know not to do something so dumb.. It’s called common sense.

So let me follow your logic, you believe that Olbermann was the smartest jounalist on tv, but since he went to currentv he is no longer?

Ok Mr Brilliant, did it ever occur to you that currentv is TV?

LOL

The American economy is imploding with unemployed layed off throughout the entire country and the Lefty Loons like Maddow want to demigod Romney over placing a dog in his crate on top of his car. Sheez, everytime my family travels to Florida from Jersey we put our dog on top of our car in guess what, a crate.

Bush already left the Oval office.

Corporations are people, my friend.

I like firing people. 

You’re just jealous that I’m rich and you’re not! 

Dogs like fresh air.   ~ Romney 2012

Teabaggers,conservatives,and Paul people are already having a Romney, they’re shitting their pants in terror of Mitt being their nominee. 

My father always told me you could tell a lot about a person on how they treat dogs.

I don’t think “demigod” means what you think it means. Freudian slip?

 Bottom line. Romney is as phoney as they come. This guy will do or say anything, anything to get him elected president. He has no principles. I’m pro-choice and if Romney would have been pro-life all these years I wouldn’t have a problem with it at all. But to change positions on such a personal issue just to get votes shows Romney who he really is.. And this is just one example. Mormons (at least him)  may not smoke, drink alcohol or coffee but he sure does makes  it up and does his share of lying and you can see right thru him. Looking at the guy he is just so incincere, I can see right thru  the man. I’m sure alot of other people can too. I said my piece and that all.

Michael Vick, you know – the rape racks, the drowning, the fighting, the hanging of dogs?

Here’s a good piece on the Maddow Blog

Why I’m Not Mad at Michael Vick

“To revisit: Yes, Vick’s crimes were ruthless and nauseating. (I’d stop
short of calling them inhuman, since what humans do to animals we don’t
keep as pets makes his acts quite human.) And yet, the root and true
meaning of the word “penitentiary” is obvious in its first eight
letters. Why so many of my fellow Americans feel the need to punish him
forever is beyond my capacity to explain. Whether Michael Vick is truly
reformed, only he can know. He’s given every indication of late, both on and off the field, that he’s learned his lesson.”

http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/12/29/5726064-why-im-not-mad-at-michael-vick

This is interesting too:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jack-coleman/2010/12/30/maddow-guest-harris-perry-michael-vicks-abuse-dogs-payback-bull-connor

Why?  It shows a grown mans lack of judgement and common sense, and running for President to boot.

There are approximately 78.2 million owned dogs in the United States.  Thirty-nine percent of U.S. households own at least one dog.  That’s a lot of voters, Mitt.

Clark Griswold dragging the dog behind the car was fictional.  
Mitt Romney doesn’t seem to think his real life action constituted animal cruelty, as he laughs it off. 

Mitt Romney: “This is a completely airtight kennel, mounted on the top of our car. He climbed up there regularly, enjoyed himself, he was in a kennel at home a greal deal of time as well.  We loved the dog, it was where he was comfortable and we had five kids inside the car and my guess is he liked it a lot better in his kennel than he would have liked it inside.” 

Why the hell did Romney even HAVE a dog if he was going to treat it like this?  People who have such disregard for animals usually have the same disregard for humans.

There are things that bring Romney as the President into question. This is not one of them. If this is seriously going to be one of the lines of attack, Romney should be feeling pretty good about himself. There is ZERO chance of this story eclipsing the likes of 1) the economy, 2) the debt, 3) health care, etc.

I’m not mad a Vick either. He did his time and seems to be making amends to what he did. The problem is not that Romney had the evil intent in him like Vick, it’s that he had no common sense or reason as to why you would do that to a dog… He wasn’t being mean intententially. That’s the scary part.

Bush isn’t running for president.

Well. well, well, you’re back. I see you changed your id and avatar.  If I remember correctly, the last time you were here it was the CIA directing the comment section, now it’s the NSA. I won’t even go so far as to address your  conspiratorial website, it speaks for itself once you have perused it. I’m just glad your back. Though I think you should  have kept the skunk as your avatar, it was kinda cute.

Good dog! You get a treat!

does anyone here even get Current ?…like 1000 people in this country watch that channel…its not tv

Can you use Romney in a sentence? 

That’s a cute saying, but I’d prefer to choose a president based on how he will treat the economy.

Bad dog! Get in your kennel!

Next time you take that family trip with your dog on the roof, I hope a State Trooper will pull you over and charge your family for animal cruelty.  Bring extra money for bail.

You can say virtually the same things about Obama, so who are you voting for, Ron Paul?

I’m a dog lover, so I won’t even begin to defend this.

But is this how we pick presidents now?  Romney can be a cold hearted robot for all i care, I just want the economy back on track.

maddow
(mad-dow) n.

1. An effected , often offensive sh#t eating grin .

We’ll tell the Republicans stop filibustering everything and the economy will improve at a faster pace.  Republicans are just trying to make the economy worse, so it hurts the president.  That was their number one goal.

Romney says that the kennel is “air tight.”  It is either a lie, or he has a dead dog.

I wonder if Governor Romney has asked Michael Vick to endorse him?

Brilliant economic analysis.

Of course since the Republicans have passed over a dozen bills(with bi partisan support) and Reid and Senate Dems have refused to bring them up for a vote, I’ll just assume you’re confused.

In fact the Dems haven’t passed a budget in over 900 days.

In fact the Dems haven’t even introduced a budget.

What kind of idiot puts their dog on the top of their car for a whole 12 hours? Great segment Rachel!!

Seriously dude – you like to “lift” statements out of context?

Class act there boy.  

I’m glad you caught that. This is an example of how checked-out news people such as Chris Wallace are. Anyone paying attention, like a reporter should, should have caught this.

perhaps they could start with charging idiots driving around in trucks with the dogs loose and pacing like crazy back and forth in the trucks.  It would be very easy to have a crate tethered solidly to the roof of a car and pretty much wind proof.

p.s  what would have been the speed limit in 1983?  I truly can’t believe this is what they find against Romney.  There is nothing low enough for you guys and yet – we mustn’t call Michelle “angry” because damn – that might be true, have proof, and can see her “smily” face and fierce eyebrows often.  But, how dare we!!!!!

James Crugnale- I am pretty sure that the Boston Globe article referenced by Maddow is written by Neil Swidley, NOT Helman.

perhaps like Michelle knew better than to wear $600 runners to the food line.  Oh damn wrong party!

At least Governor Romney and his family provided a home for this beautiful dog which might otherwise have been euthanized.  Yes, he may have scared the s— out of the dog on one occasion, but President Obama was so cruel to his daughters that he would not let them have a dog until they moved into the White House and the dog defecation and urine would be cleaned up by the White House staff at the expense of the taxpayers.  I guess there just was never enough room for a dog in his Chicago mansion purchased with the aid of Tony Rezko.  How many dogs were euthanized, because the President and/or the First Lady would not let their daughters have a family pet?

Yes Rachel, cruelty to animals will be a major issue this year!

(P.S.) Do any of the commentators at MSNBC, including Rachel, own pets?

there is a reason she’s known as “mad cow”.  

Now why would you want to point out their freaking hypocrisy?  It’s so apparent with every dumb post about this, or Palin, or defense of the angry little Mrs.  Yup, democrats at their finest! lol

Yah, keep giving Obama money – cause he spends it wisely and on important things!  

Are you insane?

Are we talking about Seamus or the commentators at MSNBC?

Bain Capital will be Romeny’s bane (undoing(. He is a greedy vulture capitalist and Newt and company are harping on that. Eventually, one person will emerge as the GOP nominee. If it is Romney, the Bain Capital vulture capitalism will surely be brought back up by Obama and the Liberals. The Seamus, rooftop kennel episode just hammers Romney;s lack of compassion even harder. I know the right wing base of the Tea Part and the GOP social conservatives hate Romney, but he can capture the independents and moderates. However, Romney can best solve the Tea Party base problem by making Santorum or Perry his VP. The problem will then be, first will Santorum or Perry take the VP slot, and two how much will Santorum or Perry being a heartbeat from the Whitehouse turn off independents and moderates. The Seamus incident exacerbates Romney’s robotic problem (like it did Gore in 2000, among other things). Combine that with the flip-flopping, and you come up with a cold, robotic SOB who when it comes to what he will do in a situation is unknown. Will he really overturn ObamaCare? He created and passed it in Massachusetts. Is he pro-life or pro-choice? Will he be a Conservative Republican or a compromising Moderate. Which Mitt Romney is running, and more importantly, which Mitt Romney will sit in the Oval Office. Who does he represent, or will Mitt check the polls every week as Clinton did?

lol yup – Rachel, Keith, Ed, Al – a brilliant lot

What it “shows” is that nobody can even remember what the hell they did 30 years ago – let alone have the democrats bending themselves into pretzels to attempting to justify the “fool on the hill”.

Michael Vick watches her show every night!  He cares!

bull shit

“What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.”

–Mitt Romney

Dear Turk,

Please list these “bipartisan” bills.

Yeah, that doesn’t even pass the wiki test. 

Until 2016…

Tee Hee .

Air-tight kennel?! Dear lord, the poor thing must’ve could’ve suffocated. 
We could use candidates who actually bloody know the language, too. Jaysus. 

Woof! *wag* *wag*

You’ve spelled affected wrong.

Romney has the Michael Vick vote sewn up.

You took a story about Romney and his dog, and turned it into an attack on President Obama being responsible for dogs getting euthanized.

WOW…

I agree with your statement about dogs in the back of pick-ups.  A former boss always said how much his dog loved the open window, until the dog jumped out and was badly hurt.  An acquaintance had a dog that jumped out of the back of their pick-up – was hit and killed by another car before they could do anything.  Both times I had previously expressed concern – I didn’t need to say “I told you so”, but they knew what I thought.   

As for your p.s., this dog incident is but a snippet of Mutt Romney’s cavalier attitude toward other living beings.  His vulture capitalism at Bain exhibits the same cavalier attitude towards people.  His greed for exorbitant profits caused grief to thousands of individuals and their communities.

Michelle Obama is a beautiful intelligent woman with a beautiful heart.  You seem to be the one taking the low road.        

Have you ever heard of “satire”?  You liberals have absolutely no sense of humor! 

I can just see President Obama and Governor Romney debating how best to handle the situation with Seamus in their first Presidential debate with Rachel Maddow serving as the moderator (SATIRE)!

Mitt Romney is just a slightly less incompetent George W. Bush.

Ron Paul is a crazy racist and a bigot. Just read the stuff he wrote in his newsletters from the 197os, ’80s, and 90s. he knew what was in those newsletters. If there is anything out there with m name on it, I make sure I know what it is. If I do not agree with it and do not like what it sas or how it claims to be me representing myself, I have it removed. Ron Paul made no such attempts.

Why is it that some people, whenever they win it is because they were right all along or it was god’s will, but when they lose, it was some MASSIVE conspiracy? I think it’s aliens myself. LOL!

I would love to watch MadCow’s live coverage of Romney’s dog incident, but that would require me to raise my tolerance for SNARK by ten basis points.

rachel Maddow defines silly gotcha idiocy and snark.

jon stewart skewered her for her trite painful snide cuteness and so does the Daily Howler’ Bob Somerby.

Theyre two progressive heroes.  Shes just a silly tv celebrity who got her gig cause she sucked up to Matthews and then Olberman..

id doubt its true – but being the smartest journalist on tv is no high hurdle.
and shes 1/10th as smart as jon stewart and that was clear when he slayed and humiliated her as a guest on her own show.

Stacey I applaud you for watching a whole MadCow segment, you are brave

It’s ~200,000; that’s o.k. – you’re only out by a factor of 200.

Open wide, I’m a teabagger and id have mittens over Nobama anyday of the week and twice dip my bags in my nominee

It could be important in a state where dogs are particularly revered, like say, I dunno: South Carolina.  

Add in Colbert, & the SC primary is going to be a rare treat.

Your like the homeless man I saw in the grocery store with the same Fix News logo shirt on…you will never get it

You can now …

Hitler Finds Out Romney Strapped His Dog to Car Roof for 12-Hour Trip
Video parody here:

http://seamus2012.com/

Dog House or White House for Romney?

Felix Salmon, the Reuters financial news blogger, made the point tonight that there’s no essential difference between what Michal Milliken was doing (“leveraged buyouts” through junk bonds) & what Mitt did with Bain (as “private equity” buyouts, stripping out massive consulting fees through incurring massive debt).

You started a new name for this article? This shows there’s probably one liberal on this website who is paid by the Obama administration to

People are overreacting. I wouldn’t do anything to a dog that I wouldn’t do to my own kids.

So you offer us a snark bias talking point of your own. Thank you.

All those were taken out of context. Well, the2nd one was taken out of context. I’ll have to get back to you about those other ones.

Mormonism kept me sober.

Have you read about my religious beliefs? Common sense is not my thing.

To be honest, it was air tight and the dog is dead. I told the kids that Seamus had escaped during our road trip. I arranged with my assistant to purchase a similar Irish Setter to meet us back at the Romney mansion & told the kids that Seamus found its way home. It was a Romney family miracle and no one was the wiser until now. I messed up, okay?

He would help me to get votes from the bla people.

You better behave or I’ll put you on my roof!

Don’t worry, it probably died of terror before it died of suffocation.

Daughter’s allergies or didn’t have enough room on a road trip. I think I would rather talk about foreign policy, my dealings with Bain, and my religion than debate animal rights with Obama.

Look, I promised the kids that if Seamus didn’t survive I would get them a new dog. I don’t see what the problem is.

I didn’t have a predatory business model. We just stalked our pray until it was time to pounce and then tore it to shred until there was nothing left. That’s just venture capitalism. It’s what makes America great.

I can’t really attack Obama on health care. I see the dog issue being a bigger issue than our support for mandated healthcare.

Michael Vick will be a great addition to Team Romney.

Romney has a real track record of not showing any sense of compassion to workers or animals.

Romney would shit all over the middle class,hose down America,strap it to the roof then continue down the road that makes him and his friends the most money. 

Dear Mediaite & all current Media, could we please see stories about A. High Gas Prices which is the real reason our economy has died. B. Stories about how alot of the elderly cannot pay thier heating bills nor afford the high food prices. C. How there are NO decent jobs out there. D. How this administration is simply passing out our money to his green friends?

But we get dog stories instead.

You’ll never get mittens over Obama and how you and your nomiinee take turns dipping each other is your own business.

The Bain Of America’s Existence
(sung to “If I only had a brain”)

First we buy ‘em, then we fire ‘em
Then we offer to rehire ‘em,
At wage that causes pain…
Then we load out the machinery
Sellin’ it for China greenery
That’s they way we work at Bain.

Then we cut employee hours
Until the venture sours.
Another business down the drain.
Next we raid all the pensions
And sell the patented inventions
Just another day at Bain!

Oh, I would tell you why
The jobs have all been sent offshore
I’d think of ways to even send them more
And then I’d close… the corner store

Yes, I wont be just a raider
But a Limbaugh certified Free Trader
Showin’ Obama my disdain.
But I’ll get a beratin’
When he and I start debatin’
Because I can not run from Bain!

Truth is I’m just an asset stripper,
A Corporate Jack the Ripper
Wearin’ magic Mormon underwear
America had better watch it’s back
They’re my next victim to attack
If I win, they haven’t got a prayer!
__________________________
Charles Ulysses Feney

Mitt used water. I don’t think a 20 minutes segment dissecting his psychosis is warranted for not peeing on Seamus… much less google-santoruming him

What’s next? a 20 minutes segment decrying the desecration of “human”, albeit dirty non-caucasian and therefore semi-human, dead bodies… absurd compassionate liberals

This woman does not posess an ounce of decency.
 How would she like to have someone try turn her name into something filthier than it is?

And yet, the sickest liberals lap this garbage up and spew it back out.

Not only is Romney tin-eared, but he is unambiguously the enemy of the middle class, and the unabashed enemy of the workingman.

He’s not going to be able to shake it off (he doesn’t seem to realize it’s a problem), and it will doom his campaign.

Which is a good thing. The last thing the country needs is a 1-percenter who thinks the other 99 are “envious” of the money he made while raping wage earners.

Much more decent than you, bud. Light years.

I see another retraction in Rachel’s near future. 

Curious reply. In any case, the whole thrust of Maddow’s piece was how the story and what it suggested about Romney was going to influence the campaign.

And there I think her assessment was right on the . . . (wait for it) . . . money.

The ratings and non-foaming critics suggest otherwise.

I think it’s *you* who are envious, that articulate and thoughtful analysis actually pays pretty well.

Not to worry though, there’s no danger of you being in competition with Maddow.

No danger at all.

If they base their vote on a story like this, they shouldn’t be voting. 

By all means don’t expose yourself to the facts. Your head might explode.

I see you don’t understand funny, either.

I thought the first time this came out it was Santorum.

The Mitt-Romney-and question is a big one. I don’t think he can select any of the people he’s been campaigning against, because America already knows what jerks they are.

He’s going to have to go for someone who’s been fairly low-profile this season, and some no-opposable-thumb type to satisfy the trogs. Jim DeMint?

Regardless of who he picks — and I don’t pretend to be psychic — but my gut feel is that Romney is toast. American is *not* going to like him more the better they get to know him.

Ya know, if you don’t do what you don’t know how to do, then no one will know you don’t know how to do it.

(Not satire.)

To be fair, up to the point when the dog became ill, what he did strikes me as stupid rather than intentionally cruel.

After the point when the dog was clearly in distress, there’s no excuse for his behavior.

And your license number is what? I’d like to inform law enforcement before your next trip.

Ron Paul can’t defeat anyone. His baggage train is beginning to exceed Gingrich’s, and his most fervent followers are nuts, which turns off everyone else.

This is just not the Republicans’ year.

Really drives you crazy that she’s not a frump, doesn’t it.

That tells us a lot about you, but I don’t think we want much more detail.

Yes, because the people who don’t like how she regularly shines the light on rightwing hypocrisy and greed are classless creeps.

We already knew that.

I’ll agree that what Harris-Perry said was poppycock, but what you quote Maddow as saying above is unquestionably true, and good social policy.

They used to call it “paying your debt to society.”

And if you are not going to lock someone up for life for their crimes, but eventually release them back into the community, you’d better hope that penitence and rehabilitation work at least reasonably well, or society is in even more trouble than we ever imagined.

If you got upset over that profile, get help.

Economies are driven by people. No politician who verges on sociopathy can lead effectively. And his economic policies are nutso. There’s every reason to expect that Romney would make things much, much, much worse.

That’s just one of the things the Obama campaign will be saying about him, and they’ll be right.

Of what, pray tell?

Glad to have your support but please keep your tea bags away from me. There will be no dipping anything in me.

I might get one of my former fellow corporate raiders a plaque that says that.

That’s true, G.P.

Snickering, sneering lefties are delighted to roll in the gutter with each other, trying to smear anyone who would dare to take away the job of the arrogant, admittedly lazy failure in the White House.
Nothing is too vile or indecent or crude for these dense slackers to watch on TV and repeat from dawn till dawn.
If they were going to grow up, it would have happened by now, so, no big loss.

What grocery store? That one in S.C.? That’s been bought out by Bain Capitol and is now a multi-national corporation.

Imagine if somebody strapped you into a container on the top of a car. And you had no idea what was going on at that speed.  You counldn’t have drove a nail thru my butthole with a hammer. Imagine what the dog felt like.

If you’d stop watching Fox and listening to .am hate radio you’d see the economy is slowy but surely getting back on track. Howard Hudini couldn’t make what Bush did to the economy turn around any faster.

If somebody tied your ass to the top of a car going 60 miles + for 120 some miles I think you’d remember it longer than 30 years.

typical that maddow cares more about this story, something that happened almost 30 years ago, but doesn’t care diddly about stories involving Obama. Ones like Obama launching his campaign in Bill Ayers home, or getting involved in a land deal with Rezko. Or his lying about the whole Rev. Wright drama. No, let’s focus on Romney and a dog.

How is this different than putting kids and dogs in the back of pickup trucks? 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/templetonelliott/292271645/

Sure, maybe it was a long trip, but he built a wind barrier. I don’t see how that is different than the back of a truck. They even sell harnesses now for dogs in truck beds. Dogs stick their heads out of the window all the time, too. 

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=dog+head+out+the+window&go=&qs=n&sk=&form=QBIR 

Just like Cheney!

Forced myself to watch the video, and a couple of things – who said the dog had intestinal problems? Could he have just gone to the bathroom in his crate? And if he did indeed have intestinal issues, do you really think he should have been let in the car, to then lose his bowels all over the car? Is it possible his wife might have had a say in where the dog rides? 

In the Bush vs. Clinton portion – yes Clinton came across more sympathetic – he had more time to come up with an answer, but he did not answer the woman’s question as to how the recession affects him personally. He said he knows people who lost their jobs…. Not what she was asking. 

And I didn’t know Romney talked about the back of the truck when I wrote my comment.

People always say America elected Bush because they wanted to have a beer with him. How did that work out? Who cares if Romney isn’t someone you want to have a beer with (or about this dog story), if he can help with the economy, and be a good president? 

What that has to do with this story is beyond me. Especially the fact that Michelle isn’t running for president.

I’d just like to know how they pryed the dog off the roof when they got to their destination.

What really is the worst part of the whole story is when Romney was asked about the whole incident by Wallace. In typical Romney form instead on apologizing and saying it was a bonehead  stuped thing he did he tries and justifies by saying the dog liked it up there. This guy is as phoney as they get.

You wanna bet? Have you seen how many google hits this story has received already. I guy running for President with this kind of common sense and reasoning. And you can believe the public will be reminded of this everyday. This tops any of Palins classics and that’s saying alot.

Better yet have you seen his tax returns? http://www.rall.com/rallblog/2012/01/09/secrets-of-the-mitt-romney-tax-return

 I going to vote for whoever repeals “The Cuban Adjustment Act.” Your guy talks a good game about no amnesty for illegals. I want to hear him say that in South Florida in front of the three endorsements he got from the GOP FL Congress.
 And if I was a Tea Party member I would be outraged that he doesn’t mention anything about this which is not only amnesty to illegal Cuban immigrants but is an entitlement too ( medicare, etc.) paid for by the American taxpayer.
 Google….. Romney repealing the Cuban Adjustment Act. If you come up with an excuse for this you’re as phoney as he is.

What a brilliant analysis this is. Before I read your post I couldn’t come up with a reasonable explanation for strapping a dog to the top of a car and driving a great distance. Now, I understand how torturing a dog can be considered a positive thing.

Also, you notice how well-covered the incident of then Citizen Obama strapping Dr. Ayers to the top of the car and driving to Hawaii has been covered by the Lame Stream Media? Crickets, I say, “Crickets.”

Come back for another guest appearance soon!

Indeed, he is. Honesty never figures into the equation. Even when it would be the better course for him.

But much more competent than Obama.  

is it torture to put a dog in the bed of a truck? 

would you rather he strap his five kids up there, to make room for the dog? 

The fact that you believe what you’re typing is sad and desperate.

Romney is not my guy. I just don’t see the point in this story. It’s ridiculous.

Liberals have a tendency of calling others racist, abusive, intolerant,predatory or any other term designed to make their opponent look bad, remember the term tea baggers?  Dogs love convertibles, with their mouths, open tails wagging and with what could only be described as a smile on their faces. Dogs aren’t people and what Romney did wasn’t wrong, and  it is only now being politicalized.

Not so.  Do you say “Effectation” instead of “Affectation”?

I think Chuckles has a point.  This is bad campaign juju. Many of you would be well served to be reincarnated as my dog, who lives the most pampered live we can give.  This bothers me a lot worse than Bain Capital.  Maybe not as bad a ruining the economy for our children.

Ends justify the means, they’d say.  “We are right so it doesn’t matter what we do.”

Sadly, she’s found her niche.

All irrelevant!  More snark, please.  These kids are on a roll.

Dogs don’t love being sprayed down and then freezing their balls off being strapped to a roof on a trip to Canada, while they are simultaneously having an intestinal illness.

Rachel and the liberals have no problem with criminals who have murdered, raped, mugged and otherwise mistreated people!  They believe that it is all the fault of society and that criminals should not be punished “forever.”

You may be on to something.  Kelly Clarkson said she supported Ron Paul and her recording sales increased dramatically.  Now she has been chosen to sing the National Anthem at the Super Bowl. Congressman Ron Paul may have more power than we give him credit for. 

New Jersey?  Is that you Tony Soprano?

W_Mittens_Romney, your comments are very funny.  If I were David Letterman, I would sign my new contract before CBS has a chance to audition you!

By the way, I hear Current TV is looking for a new host for “Countdown.”  This would give you an audience of at least 10 people each night assuming that Keith Olberman’s family continues to watch!

Mitt does not have a daughter. (At least none that we know of). Where is Realle Hunter?

Stop exaggerating!  Keith Olberman’s family watches “Countdown” every night!

Maybe if you would educate yourself on the subject (The Cuban Adjustment Act) instead of calling people names you would see the point in the story.

Hey! He’s a Mormon. He most certaintly is honest! :)

I didn’t call you a name, so not sure what you’re referring to. Also not taking the bait. I wasn’t talking about the Cuban Adjustment Act. You brought it up to distract from the story. Typical move for this site.

Rachel becoming the National Enquirer spoksperson for MSNBC

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Has yielded this Year
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I don’t see the problem.
I am sure Michelle Obama would like to strap mutt Barry on top of AF-1 sometimes when she goes on her “weekly” vacation jaunts.

whatever

Ha ha ha nice

Oh hush!  You seriously can’t believe that.

Being in the back seat of a convertible vs being in a “kennel” tied to the roof of a car with the sun shining and heating up your “box” are two vastly different scenarios.

Think about it as a human experience and get a grip.  Mitt made the decision that he knew what was right for his comfort – with no regard for the dog.  Do you want to be submitted to similar behavior by the President of your country? Do you want to be boxed in and told what to do regardless of how you feel?  I sure as hell don’t.

Thank you!

You need to do more research.  Romney is NOT going to create jobs.  Jobs are created by people with jobs that have money to spend on products – or WPA programs – oftentimes a combination of both…..period!  Trickle down has been a failure since Ronnie shoved it through our throats and it isn’t going to change now.

No, I’d rather he place the dog in a reputable kennel until his vacation was over.

Thank you so much.  Facts are beautiful!

That doggerel won’t hunt.

Naah. A.S.K. is an A.S.S.

The story was *about* Romney and his dog. It wasn’t about the 1923 World Series, how hemlines are going to change next season, or the price of tea in China.

Get over it.

First, you need to keep your Bushes straight, or how will you prune them properly? It was Bush II who was famously noted for his beerability, not Bush I.

Also, it wasn’t timing that gave Clinton the edge, it was the fact that he was 50 times the politician GHW Bush was, and that he actually had a drop of blood in his veins, as opposed to Bush’s embalming fluid.

And Clinton *did* answer the question, although he pivoted it: “the recession (national debt) has affected me because I’ve seen its effects on the faces of people I know.”

And it was a very good answer, because it was all downhill for Bush after that particular debate.

Yep. Skewering hypocritical subgenius troglodytes for big bucks, and on TV to boot. A heckuva niche. If there are any left over, I’d love one

i think maddow needs to get over it.

i don’t have my Bush’s mixed up at all. And Clinton didn’t answer her question, how she intended. I’m not arguing Clinton was a better pol. I voted for him. I like him. 

You people need to learn how to chill, and learn how to comprehend comments. I don’t support Romney, nor did I say whether he could or would create jobs. I said a 30 year old story about a dog doesn’t matter – what matters is his ability to help the economy and be an effective leader.

perhaps next time he goes on vacation, he will call and ask you what he should do. 

Your responses fall into a pattern: discount the subject under discussion and complain that the commentator hasn’t addressed your pet obsession(s) — regardless of the news cycle that has raised the original issue.

You have a relevancy problem, and it makes you seem like a crank. I was pointing that out, again.

I’m likely to continue doing so when I run across posts that do nothing more than trot out your (largely irrelevant) obsessions.

Get over it.

And the whole point of the dog story is that character in a leader matters. The story illustrates Romney’s character in a way that 1) should be disturbing to anyone paying attention and 2) hands the Democrats a very big stick to beat him with.

You are welcome:)

So, now that you’ve rolled in the shit on your lawn, are you going to run back to some human (if you can find one) who will praise your efforts at self-perfumery?

You may be right….Why would she want to take that creep along?

Another one? Do you think America really wants to go for a swim into that gene pool again?

but the character of a man who sits in a racist church for 20 years, lies about it, and has his career kicked off in the home of a terrorist, and makes shady land deals with felons doesn’t matter? (hence the point of my original comment) It’s a bs story about his dog – what he did was no worse than putting your dog in the back of a pick up truck. People forgave Vick for killing and extreme brutality against dogs…. 

I discussed the topic at hand, you have turned your comments into a personal attack on me. 

I did not discount the subject – I commented on it and gave my opinion about the topic, which is what comment sections are for.

I think you might be in violation of the new Mediaite commenting guidelines.

Just because you don’t like or agree with my comment on the topic doesn’t mean you have open season to personally insult me. 

Hmm. Irrational resentment. Where have I seen that before?

“Hmm. Irrational resentment. Where have I seen that before?”

one can only imagine.

WOW. Congratulations on graduating from Harvard and getting elected president! I mean, you did, right? You must have, otherwise you couldn’t countenance saying something so obnoxious about someone who actually did, you know, graduate from Harvard and get elected president and all that. Wait, what? You didn’t go to Harvard or become the most powerful person on earth? You’re just an ill-informed moron with Mommy issues? Okay, now I get it. No wonder your political party is dying. 

I concur, who gives a rat’s ass about anything Maddow says? This Nations is close to a Depression, and all this twit can talk about is this NON-story?

Not if he can’t lie better than he’s doing now!

Maybe, because it’s so contrived.

Mitt is not going to get the pet owners vote; and if dogs could vote……..

Also, we had 3 large Airedales, they rode in the vehicle; the luggage rode on the top of the car.

Shoots, over here in Hawaii every other car has a dog riding on the roof of the car.. I don’t know what you LibTards have a problem with ;)

What is sad and desperate is the fading hope you have for a republican to beat Obama this year.  Romney’s lack of empathy for the family dog is just one of the negatives that will shut down his chances at the presidency.  It says a lot about a person how they treat animals — and whether you agree with it or not Americans have a real feeling for the innocence of animals, especially dogs.  Most of us think it is disgusting and atrocious to put a dog on top of the car.  The top of the car is for suitcases and other inanimate objects, not animals or people.  It appears you will be surprised at how many people will not vote for him just because of this story.  Neither Stylin nor myself will be.

I’m more concerned that Obama keeps crapping on the economy and America’s future, but you go ahead with the tenuous dog thing…

I would trust my dog’s care to the Griswold family before I’d trust the Romneys to take him anywhere.

So, let me see if I understand your logic. You think that it would make more sense to put a large, vomiting, wet, smelly dog in a very tightly packed car to ride in the lap of your children? GROSS!! And what would be the other option? Turn around and drive the same number of hours in the other direction? Come on! This is so unbelievably irrelevant to his ability to run the country. I am so much more interested in how he is going to fix the economy, healthcare, education, and the national security. To liberals….desperation is not becoming!

Seriously? Seatbelts were not required to be installed in vehicles until 1968 and drivers were not mandated to use them until 1984. It was the late 80′s before the whole country was on board. You might want to get checked…that memory is fading…FAST.

By the way the last state to have primary enforcement was Alabama in 1991.

This pet owner will vote for him before Obama any day of the week…and twice if I could get away with it!!!!

With Romney’s wealth he couldn’t afford a better way to take the bunch to their vacation spot with no dog puke on them<

Yup. With Romney’s wealth there are a thousand more options to get the dog and his family to their destination. What’s more important is that when Romney was criticized about it by Wallace, Romney just should have said that it was a dumb mistake or something to that effect. Instead, Romney goes back to his same getting around the question. He said the dog like it up there…… He is a phony. sorry

What he is going to do is to treat the weak and defenseless
just like he treated his defenseless family dog.  He will reduce the taxes on the rich even
more and on the backs of the elderly and infirm. 
Hopefully you are wealthy enough to be a 1%er and to hell with the 99%.

It’s Bush logic: Get us into something there’s no good way to get out of (Iraq, Afghanistan,Guantanamo) He should have planned the trip to not include having the dog on the roof in the first place. It’s called foresight and compassion, the lack of which makes a poor leader.

Anyone who does not think that people who love animals will consider what Romney did to his dog, is wrong. I had doubts about him and now I can’t stand him. I want to put him on top of a car enclosed for 12 hours. That might help. Creep!!

Why not do something sensible and compassionate and take the dog, who is obviously a member of the family and sick, to a veterinarian?

Since the dog is obviously sick and a member of the family, why not do something both sensible and compassionate like taking the dog to a veterinarian?

 Nonsense, when my son was born in early”84, we were required to take him home in an approved baby car seat. And, this was New Mexico.

You’ve put your question mark on the wrong side of the closed quote. 

Any one that does not see anything wrong with a dog strapped on top of a station wagon in an air tight kennel and gets diarrhea and then gets sprayed down with a hose and put back on top of the vehicle. is messed up in the head. would you people that thinks this is OK do this to a child “probable”.
Romney to this day See’s nothing wrong with it. station wagons have luggage rakes for luggage not dogs, but Romney puts the luggage in the back of the vehicle and the dog went on top. and would do it again. thank God I don’t know any Romney voters.

Hmmm, i dont remember 30 years ago (lol i was a newborn) but i can tell you the president 30 years ago couldn’t tell you what he had done 30 seconds before you asked him.

Lol, so sad Dems will do anything to deflect the fact of how

horrible this country has been run under Osama, I mean

Obama for the last 3 years.  Failed policy, excuses, and his

own promises not kept!  All facts!!!