Mitt Romney Said His Dog Loved To Ride On Top Of His Car

Mitt Romney was in Pittsburgh and brought up old family trips with his family and dog. It all started with a story in the Boston Globe called The Making of Mitt Romney. In that story they write about the Romney family going on vacation from Boston to his parents’ cottage on the Canadian shores of Lake Huron. As the story in the Globe goes, “Before beginning the drive, Mitt Romney put Seamus, the family’s hulking Irish setter, in a dog carrier and attached it to the station wagon’s roof rack. He’d built a windshield for the carrier, to make the ride more comfortable for the dog.” On one occasion the dog pooped on the roof giving Romny’s five boys an unexpected rare pit stop during the 12 hour drive. Because he stopped and washed off the poop, the Globe feels that was, “a tiny preview of a trait he would grow famous for in business: emotion-free crisis management.” That’s right, normal people would have panicked when the dog poops on the roof, wait a minute, normal people don’t put their dogs on the roof of their car for 12 hour drives.
While in Pittsburgh Romney cheered the failure of the immigration bill. “People-one, Washington politicians-zero,” Romney told reporters. “I think the failure of this bill is related to the Washington politicians’ failure to connect with the American people.” He was there to attend a fundraiser. He also spoke briefly about Iraq, saying, “We very much hope the troop surge works.” Romney seems to think it still to early to tell if our current policy in Iraq is a failure.
Alan Cosgrove