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RESEARCH: Celebrity Animal Abuse Stories — Has There Ever Been A Politician Involved In One?
One of the things I want to accomplish in the 2012 election is to find a way to mitigate the damage that the Tolerant Left intends to do to Republicans should the Cocktail Party GOP establishment succeed in making Willard “Mittens” Romney the presidential nominee — specifically the damage that will be done down ticket from association with the “Mutt Romney” animal abuse scandal that Tolerant Leftists are already ginning up.
Republicans think this is a big joke and are mostly doing that stupid thing they do where they pretend something bad doesn’t exist (which reminds me yet again the party’s symbol should be an ostrich, not an elephant).
I need your help today researching other instances where celebrities abused animals in some way — so we can take a look at how much damage was done to them by groups like PETA, since in a general election you can count on PETA leading a charge against Romney if he’s the ultimate nominee. What did others in the past do to mitigate the damage done to their careers and brands when the elite, agenda-driven media revved up the attack machine against them because of some issue related to animals?
On the political front, I can think of idiots like Ashley Judd accusing Governor Sarah Palin of hunting wolves from a helicopter in her spare time — which actually made it seem like the Governor was secretly engaged in Buffy-esque “Werewolf Slayer” activity in Alaska. That attempt to tar Governor Palin with the animal-abuser brush largely failed, though Judd and other “celebrity activists” tried their hardest to make it stick. The narrative the Tolerant Left kept pushing against Governor Palin was that she’s stupid — as in Tina Fey’s apocryphal “I can see Russia from my house” line — so the media could not succeed in hammering the Governor with an animal abuser epithet too (because if she’s so stupid in the Left’s eyes, then how could she even know what she was doing when she was hunting werewolves from helicopters).
Lyndon Johnson used to lift his two beagles Him and Her up by their ears for photographers — and while that didn’t do much damage to him at the time, today I rarely hear anyone talk about Johnson without someone mentioning “what he did to those poor dogs”. It’s colored his legacy because he’s painted as an animal abuser retroactively — and he was a Democrat, so it shows you that when animals are involved the Tolerant Left can’t even control what the PETA -esque zealots get up to with this sort of thing.
Here’s a list of the big animal abuse stories that the media went wild with in the last few years — please chime in below with any others I’ve missed. I really want political-related ones, like where a Senator or Congressperson or Governor was involved in harming an animal in some way and was then excoriated for it — but all I’ve been able to find have been actors, singers, and reality-TV stars doing these stupid things:
1. Paris Hilton — remember her? At one time, she had something like 17 dogs, mostly chihuahuas. One of the dogs was named “Tinkerbell”, which lived in Paris’ purse during the filming of her various reality TV shows. Around 2006 or so, Paris stopped taking little dogs with her everywhere she went after it became known that she wasn’t the kindest or most dedicated dog owner. She treated the little animals like fashion accessories and was accused of leaving them to die in her closets when she got bored with them. The animal rights’ zealots started taking smacks at her in print because she was blamed for starting the trend where vapid celebutantes carried these critters in their purses — and forever PR-attuned Paris decided it was best if she phased the Tinkerbell antics out before she became a bigger target for these people.
2. Courtney Love: allowed one of her dogs to eat breast implants she had laying around the house (which she claims she forgot about) and forgot about another dog that she left at the vet’s and never picked up again. Because she has such a bad reputation already as a drugged-out train wreck, Love didn’t get any more hate than usual from the press over these instances…though the animal rightists scolded her for allowing the dog to eat her implants. What Romney did to his dog Seamus is a lot worse than this, because he’s supposed to be a respectable person who makes good decisions — not the wasted, deranged lead singer of a band named “Hole”. Love was also accused recently of having a “hoarding problem” (like you see on TV, where people accumulate so much junk in their homes it consumes their lives) that resulted in her cat dying (from being trapped in the rubble). Love claims the cat was killed by a mountain lion, not her hoarding.
3. Ellen DeGeneres: huge, hateful backlash against her over a dog adoption issue back in 2007. I know you remember this one — it’s the first time that Ellen’s golden image was tarnished. Ever since she came out of the closet, she became the media’s designated “go-to” lesbian and one of the gay community’s most high profile spokespeople. I used to watch her show every day when I had a TV but stopped around the time this thing happened with the dog because I’ve never felt the same about Ellen afterwards. I bet I’m not alone on that, either. The problem with the dog adoption is that Ellen and her now-partner Portia di Rossi adopted a dog through something called “Mutts & Moms”, which has strict rules for their adoptions. That word — adoption — is used purposefully by these people because they treat the handing over of an animal as seriously as people treat adopting a child. Ellen got in trouble because she and Portia ended up not liking the dog and got bored with it, so they gave the dog away to their cleaning lady. The “Mutts & Moms” people paid Ellen a surprise visit to see if she was abusing the dog and found out that she’d given the dog away — which violated the terms of the “adoption”. Ellen was so peeved about this that she made the huge mistake of badmouthing “Mutts & Moms” on her TV show…which encouraged her rabid fans to bombard “Mutts & Moms” with death threats. In turn, “Mutts & Moms” took to the local airwaves to talk about all the hate aimed their way because of Ellen. It was a huge PR disaster for DeGeneres — she even had a mini nervous breakdown on her show over it.
What Romney did to his dog Seamus is much worse than Ellen and Portia giving their dog to the cleaning lady. If dog lovers reduced Ellen to sobbing and tears on TV, just imagine what these people are going to do to Republicans down ticket from Romney if he’s the nominee. Can you imagine having to defend the party’s standard bearer for strapping his dog to the roof of a moving vehicle? If these people turned on Ellen – a darling of the Left – you need to think about how ugly this “Mutt Romney” stuff is going to get in a general election.
4. Jesse James – Sandra Bullock’s ex-husband, whom she divorced for a lot of reasons, but including the fact that he took his pit bulls to dog fights. Bullock found out about it and immediately started divorce proceedings — in part because she’s a genuinely nice woman who was horrified by this, but also I think because her fans would have turned on her if she’d stayed with a man who engaged in dog fights. I am sure her PR team had coronaries when they found out what Jesse James was doing. Bullock escaped unscathed from this because she got out quickly…but Jesse James is still seen as America’s #1 Scumbag for what he did to both Bullock and those dogs.
5. Michael Vick — like Jesse James, he got on the national radar for dog fighting and will forever be known as a villain for abusing animals. James and Vick did things that were worse than what Romney did to his dog Seamus, clearly, and what they did was so bad there’s just no hope of them recovering from it in the public eye.
6. Kim Kardashian — In 2010, she picked up a kitten by the scruff of its neck for a photo shoot, and PETA went after her with a vengeance for “abusing a feline”. The animal was not hurt in the slightest and it didn’t even seem to mind being picked up that way. This is sort of like the Johnson beagles thing, where those animals didn’t seem to mind what he did either. But Kardashian — who is some sort of reality TV staple — was hounded by PETA for months so they could “make an example of her” to discourage others from picking up cats by the back of their necks. You really need to understand that the Outrage Industry is comprised of groups like PETA that sit around all day waiting for someone to pick up an animal the wrong way so they can label that person “The New Hitler” for being so cruel and callous. Kardashian picking up a kitten by the neck is nowhere near as bad as Romney strapping his dog to the roof of a car. Just imagine what these people are going to do to him.
7. Ozzy Osbourne — many, many years ago, during a concert, a fan threw something on the stage that Ozzy thought was a rubber Halloween bat. So he took it and playfully bit the head off it. Instantly, he realized it was a real bat and vomited the head onto the stage, along with his lunch. He was rushed to the hospital for a rabies check — and he never intended to harm an animal, live or dead, and didn’t mean to bite the head off a real bat (that was already dead). Still, to this day, people tell the story about him biting off the head of that bat and the usual suspects at PETA go on about this, citing it as “cruelty to animals”.
For those of you who are really good at research, please help add mores instances to the above.
What’s at work here — which a lot of Republicans don’t yet see — is that there’s an entire shadowy Outrage Industry that exists for the scandal these “celebrities abusing animals” stories create. PETA uses these events to solicit donations in their fundraising campaigns — so a lot of money is probably involved, which makes these people forever on the hunt for the next big name they can smear as “The New Hitler” for being cruel to animals.
If Willard “Mittens” Romney becomes the Republican presidential nominee, he instantly also becomes the biggest named “celebrity” to ever abuse animals — according to the guidelines that have been established for this sort of thing. A quick check of the above instances reveals the following:
* it’s considered animal abuse to carry animals in purses or leave them in closets — putting Seamus on the roof was worse than this, so Romney is an animal abuser to these people
* it’s animal abuse to give a dog away to another person when you said you would not do that — clearly, strapping a dog to the roof of a moving vehicle and scaring it so badly it explodes with diarrhea all over the car is worse than this, so Romney is an animal abuse to these people
* it’s animal abuse to pick up a kitten the wrong way — so traveling with a dog strapped to the roof of a car is more animal abuse than that
The more instances of this stuff that we can find, the better sense we’ll have of what’s coming Romney’s way and how we could possibly remove this as an issue in the general election if we start planning a counter strategy now.
The only way to take it off the table would be to find an instance where Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, or Joe Biden did something worse to an animal than what Mittens did to “Mutt Romney”. If we find that, and start talking about that incident, the “Mutt Romney” stuff will go away instantly.
Otherwise, this will be one effective attack against Romney in the general election that the ostrich/elephant Cocktail Party chimeras keep pretending doesn’t exist.
Making the Rounds: Image of Romney Getting Shoes Polished on Tarmac
[Click above to embiggen: Image of Willard "Mittens" Romney getting shoes polished on tarmac juxtaposed with that of Obama fist-bumping a janitor...part of the Tolerant Left's tireless efforts to depict Romney as out of touch with regular Americans]
I just saw this on Facebook today — it’s the latest image the Tolerant Left is using to portray Willard “Mittens” Romney as out of touch with regular Americans. This is part of Barack Obama’s “Occupy & Persecute” re-election strategy, which replaces 2008 old-and-busted “Hope & Change” with unrestrained class warfare at a time when millions of Americans are suffering financially — and are thus primed to fall into the trap Democrats are setting for an emotional “Us vs. Them!” election.
Is this seriously the man that the Cocktail Party GOP establishment elite wants to send out as its standard bearer while the Occupy Wall Street types are being conditioned to make a frontal assault on Romney-as-classic-Wall-Street-Villain caricature?
Seriously?
Below the fold, read comments I scooped off Facebook showing you just how nasty things will get if Romney is the nominee — that “electability” thing the Romney camp keeps parroting is bunk, folks. See for yourselves:
Taiwanese Animation: Mutt Romney Edition. Next Media Cartoon of Romney Dog Strapped to Roof
This is one of those times that I tell you that conservatives ignore things like these “Taiwanese Animations” at their own peril.
These cartoons are stupid, and they almost always get the facts wrong, but the majority of people who share these little clips via social networking enjoy them — and actually get their news from these things.
Pretending they don’t exist, or that “they’re stupid and don’t matter” is foolish.
The saga of “Mutt Romney” — the name that’s now being assigned to the Romney family dog Seamus who was strapped to the roof of their car in the 80s for a long ride to Canada — is evolving every day, with new details taking hold in the imaginations of those laying the groundwork to bring Romney down in a general election if he becomes the nominee.
Here are a few bits that the Taiwanese cartoon captured that you might not appreciate yet:
* Comparison is already being made — by the White House — between how Barack Obama treats his dog Bo (who rides in limos and in private planes and is pampered) to Willard “Mittens” Romney strapping his dog to the roof of his car; if you are a Romney supporter, you need to admit this is a PR nightmare and work to disarm it now
* The story’s growing, so it’s no longer about the dog being only strapped to the car and becoming so terrified he exploded with diarrhea — but it’s also delving into the family’s arrival in Canada where the dog was so traumatized he ran away from the Romneys; the dog’s becoming an almost sentient creature in these expanding tales, where he chooses to leave the Romneys after bad treatment. The Tolerant Left is using this as a secular parable to illustrate how voters should run away from Romney too.
* The “Mutt Romney” saga is obligatorily being called “Crate Gate”, in Watergate fashion
* The Tolerant Left is alleging — through sites such as Dogs Against Romney – that Mittens cruelly drove the family car through a car wash, with Seamus “Mutt” Romney still strapped to the top, to wash it off after the dog sprayed the car with diarrhea. This is apocryphal, of course, but like Tina Fey’s “I can see Russia from my house” line that was used to malign Governor Palin, the Left’s unconcerned about facts and instead seeks to push a damaging narrative against Republicans. With Palin, the Tolerant Left depicted her as stupid and chose lines of attacks that used lines from Tina Fey to convince millions of Americans she said things she didn’t; in Mittens’ case, the Left’s objective is to paint him as cruel, callous, and uncaring and to claim he abused his dog, strapped it to the roof of a moving vehicle, and then dragged it through a car wash to clean it.
I truly implore you to start paying attention to the “Mutt Romney” issue and to ignore the fools in conservative ranks who always say, “It doesn’t matter what Hollywood says or what people are saying on that Facebook thing!”. If Romney ends up being the nominee, this diarrhea-spewing-dog-strapped-to-the-roof-of-a-car visual will alienate this man from millions of dog owners (estimated to be 38% of the population), dog lovers (estimated around 70% of the population), and pet owners of some type (around 80% or so of Americans, at one point in their life or another).
This is a big, woofing, deal.
Mutt Romney Issue: People Get Pulled Over By Cops For Doing What Mitt Romney Did With Impunity Back in 1980-something
[Click above to embarken: The Seamus Express — “Mutt Romney” issue that could derail general election campaign}
The Facebook group Dogs Against Romney was abuzz yesterday with the revelation that people in the year 2012 get pulled over by the police for driving with dogs strapped to the roofs of their cars — for those unaware, this is the “Mutt Romney” issue that will dog his candidacy in the general election if Romney indeed becomes the Republican nominee for president.
The photo above was posted on Dogs Against Romney and is purported to be a shot of a police cruiser after it pulled over the driver for suspected animal abuse. In reality, it was a Dogs Against Romney member who strapped that carrier to the roof in a protest against Romney.
Before I post the comments left by the Tolerant Left eviscerating Romney on the “Mutt Romney” issue, I implore Romney supporters out there to aggressively encourage any contacts you have on the Romney campaign to get out in front of this issue before Barack Obama has a chance to use this against him in the general election.
I suspect the reason the White House has so prominently flown Bo the Dog around in special planes and drives him all sorts of places in limos is so that at some point during the campaign Obama will start making jokes about how his dog rides inside while Romney strapped his dog Seamus to the roof.
This is going to happen. If Romney’s your guy, disarm this attack NOW while you still can.
Why Mitt Romney Will Lose to Barack Obama: Dogs Against Romney and “I Ride Inside” Campaign
Anticipating that the Cocktail Party GOP establishment will succeed in crowing Willard “Mittens” Romney the 2012 Republican nominee, Democrats have ginned up the DogsAgainstRomney.com website and have launched an interactive “I Ride Inside” campaign — where dog owners are encouraged to take pictures of their pets riding inside cars, as opposed to Seamus “Mutt” Romney (the family pet that Romney strapped to the top of his car on a long trip to Canada in the mid-1980s).
There’s a Facebook group that adds new “I Ride Inside” images every day — often generating hundreds of irate comments from people who swear to punish Romney in the general election for what he did to his Irish setter, Seamus.
For some reason, far too many Republicans are failing to see how big of a deal this “Mutt Romney” issue will be if Romney becomes the nominee.
While it’s true that Democrats will malign whoever becomes the Republican nominee, there are some lines of attack that are more effective and emotional than others, with visuals that the Tolerant Left is able to expertly twist to clobber Republicans in elections. Abuse of animals is one of these areas, since there’s no way to argue that “people back in the 80s didn’t know better and what he did wasn’t all that bad”.
Sarah Palin never said “I can see Alaska from my house”, but that didn’t matter to the millions of people who bought the Democrats’ line of attack that she was stupid and this was proof.
Millions of people will not buy Romney’s weak explanation for why he strapped his dog to the roof of his car — they will only pay attention to the “I Ride Inside” efforts and concur it was cruel, cold, and callous of Romney to tie his dog to the roof and barrel down the highway.
Has anyone ever been elected to high office whose opponents accused him of cruelty to animals as beloved as dogs?
If you’re a Romney fan who is reading this, instead of your typical behavior (which is to be angry that I am bringing this issue up) why not try to find a way to disarm this “Mutt Romney” attack before the general election.
I honestly don’t know how to do that — but if you are someone who is convinced that Romney can beat Obama, I would like to know how you prevent the “I Ride Inside” angle from being effectively used against him.
Thoughts?
Below the fold I copied just one of the lengthy exchanged on Facebook over this so that you can see for yourself how revved up animal lovers get over “Mutt Romney” once they find out about the “Seamus strapped to the roof of the car” story:
Created and shared by pack member Amanda Gilman. This is Bailey. Woof!
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Geraldine Mongold in her own little fuzzy pouch! do those come in people size?Friday at 10:01pm · ·
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Muriel MacKenzie Breaks my heart when I hear of animal abuse. If only the human who hurt the animal could endure the same punishment.Friday at 10:08pm · · 5 -
Jane Ellen Bergren you got that right murielFriday at 10:12pm · · 1 -
Constance Gilchrist Lightly Sadly so many people don’t know the potential danger they are putting their dogs in when they drive around with their heads and eyes out the window. Also they are just a projectile if hit from behind in a vehicle. Great post ♥ ♥ ♥Friday at 10:13pm · · 1 -
Bonnie Bridgman Pullen My dogs have car seats, are harnessed in and in the back seat!Friday at 10:26pm · · 2 -
Thad McManus Our two dog-children always travel in harnesses. In the car, and on our bikes. Can’t find a good dog bike helmet, tho.Friday at 10:31pm · · 2 -
Peggy Shabalabadingdong Are these bumper stickers? If not they should be! If they are I want one…….Friday at 10:58pm · -
Dogs Against Romney No not bumper stickers. The photos aren’t high resolution for printing. But I’ll work on some designs that can be bumper stickers. We DO have some other bumper stickers tho: http://www.cafepress.com/dogsagainstromney
Sells Official Dogs Against Romney merchandise including t-shirts, mugs, coffee cups, bumper stickers, and more.Friday at 11:05pm · -
Jim Adams I think Bailey should be the mascot, perfect. When I first heard this story I couldn’t believe the type of person who would do this. I don’t pretend to understand people but wow, just wow. Imperious much, Mitt ?Saturday at 6:43am · -
Cathy Savage Llama Obama’s dog, Bo, rides in the limo. Romney’s dog, Seamus rode up on the roof rack. If dogs could vote it would be a landslide of epic proportions.Saturday at 11:27am · · 9 -
Debra Warrens LOVE IT! TOO CUTE!Saturday at 2:06pm ·
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Ron Paul Won Nevada Caucus – And Nevada Voters Lost
Ron Paul speaks in Minnesota, H/T The Daily Beast
While you were busy enjoying your bread and circuses yesterday, operatives from the Nevada GOP–aided and abetted by all four cable “news” networks–were busily manipulating the results of the Nevada Caucuses, handing another undeserved victory to Mittens “It’s My Turn, Peasants” Romneycare.
You probably aren’t aware of this, because the TeeVee told you that Mitt Romney won, nothing to see here, move along now, after a mere 5% of the vote had been counted.
But what the TeeVee didn’t tell you–for about an entire day–is that the Nevada GOP refused to release the results from Clark County, Nevada’s most populous county and the home of 60% of Nevada’s registered voters. In fact, as of this writing, more than 30 hours after the last caucus closed, the Nevada Caucuses are still not decided. (Well, not in the “lawfully and transparently counting the votes to see who got the most” sense. They’ve already been decided in the “we count the votes, and we already decided in advance that Mittens was going to win” sense.)
Here’s some coverage of the “special caucus” that Newt’s billionaire casino magnate backer bought for him. It was the last caucus that took place, and is in Clark County, where 60% of all Nevada voters are located. Later that night, CNN also aired the live counting of the votes at that caucus. In the video below, CNN joins the event at the point where the candidates’ supporters were giving stump speeches. Over two dozen caucus voters spoke on Ron Paul’s behalf, in an audience that was expected to be largely Seventh-Day Adventists and Orthodox Jews. Romney, Gingrich and Santorum only inspired two or three supporters to speak on their behalf, according to one witness who voted at the caucus.
Here are the results, counted and announced live on CNN:
Ron Paul: 183
Mittens Romney: 61
Newt Gingrich: 57
Rick Santorum: 16
It’s remarkable that the total is so high, given the fact that the caucus organizers forced those who wanted to vote to sign a “religious declaration” affidavit before giving them a ballot, likely in violation of the Voting Rights Act.
Even with religious discrimination the results favored Ron Paul, as the Paul campaign expected, based on their internal polling. (At some point in the past two weeks, I read that the Paul campaign had identified over 20,000 definite Ron Paul voters in advance of the caucuses. I’ll post a source if I can find it.)
Ron Paul’s vote totals have more than doubled in every primary or caucus so far over his 2008 totals, and since he has had a massive organization in Nevada for four years, and Nevada is a libertarian state, he was expected to either win or tie for first place. And in the ONE large Clark County caucus where the votes were counted in public, on live television, Ron Paul won by a landslide, as was expected.
Apparently, that was bad news for those in the Cocktail Party GOP in Nevada.
Miraculously, “irregularities” were quickly found that required the party operatives to sequester themselves in a smoke-filled room and “recount” the votes from Clark County (until they get the totals they had decided upon in advance?)
At 3:10 a.m. Monday, nearly 10% of the votes have still not been reported. At this point, Ron Paul is listed in third place with only 5,901 votes–fewer votes than he received in 2008, when he placed second to Mitt Romney in the Nevada caucuses.
And just as miraculously, the chairwoman of the GOP in Nevada resigned effective 12:01 Sunday morning, in a move she claimed was pre-planned and had nothing whatsoever to do with the voter fraud the Nevada GOP was apparently undertaking.
Here’s a shorter version of events of the caucus voting and counting.
Move along, peasants. Nothing to see here. Turn up the surround sound and pass the hot wings.
Why Romney Will Lose to Obama: The Mutt Romney Issue
[ Click above to embiggen: one of the reasons Romney will lose to Obama ]
I’ve written about this one before, but I’ve only recently started seeing the Tolerant Left use the term “Mutt Romney” to begin incorporating the incident with Romney’s dog Seamus in the 80s into the larger meme that Romney is callous, cruel, and uncaring.
If Romney is the Republican nominee, expect to be saturated with three nonstop visuals for the five months of the general election campaign:
1. Thurston Howell III/Monopoly Mr. Moneybags cartoons
2. Mormon “magic underwear” (as the Tolerant Left will call the sacred Latter Day Saints garment)
3. Romney’s dog Seamus experiencing explosive, terrified diarrhea on the top of a car
Here in Boystown, no doubt Halloween costume this year will involve a lot of vulgar “magic underwear” to mock Mormons and more than a few creative people concocting some sort of chocolate-milk spraying “Mutt Romney” ensemble.
Romney supporters are very quick to screech, “I don’t care! This doesn’t matter!” but the thing is, it will indeed matter to the millions of Independent voters who will be scared off voting for Romney because the story of him strapping his Irish setter to the roof of his car and terrifying the animal while he drove on the highway will upset a great many people.
Where I live now, our lease won’t let me have a dog but I admit to spending time on YouTube watching funny dog videos whenever possible. I grew up with Siberian huskies and would love nothing more than to have another one to take care of in the future. The thought of strapping a dog to the roof of a car horrifies me — and it doesn’t matter that “some people used to do this” or “Romney built a special windshield for it”. It’s still horrifying. I just can’t imagine anyone I know doing this — and it sure will be hard to vote for Romney in the general election knowing he did this to an animal, no matter how long ago it was. It’s more than off-putting…it’s just downright creepy.
In high school, I remember one of the nuns teaching us about Lyndon Johnson during a history class and she stopped whatever she was saying for a moment and got incredibly angry before interjecting that it was hard for her to teach anything positive about Johnson because she disliked the man so much for picking his dogs up by their ears and slinging them around the White House lawn. Johnson was “just playing with them” and the news media at the time loved it when he’d do this — because no one thought anything was wrong with it, at the time, fifty odd years ago. I’ve seen lots of old-timey photos of people picking rabbits up by their ears too, with everyone smiling as if it was the most normal thing in the world.
When I see photos of Johnson picking his dogs, named “Him” and “Her”, up by their ears I think, “What a sadistic jackass” — which is immediately followed by, “What stupid names for dogs”. Though, at least he didn’t name them Little Bastard Johnson or Lacquer Box Johnson, the way all the humans in his family required “LBJ” as initials so the cheapskate could save money on monogrammed items (which is honestly why he named his daughters — and renamed his wife Claudia — so they’d all be “LBJs” like him).
One of the most common arguments that Romney supporters make when they screech “But he’s most electable!” is that Romney supposedly doesn’t “scare people” in Independent ranks.
I guarantee you that when the Tolerant Left is done saturating the public consciousness with “Mutt Romney” related imagery that plenty of people will be scared off voting for this man — because it’s just so alien and off-putting (if not outright horrifying) to think of someone strapping a live animal (and a family pet no less) up on top of the roof of a car and then barreling down the highway.
When the Tolerant Left recounts this story, I would not be surprised if they left out the part where the dog was in a carrying case…and apocryphally the meme will spread that the dog was just tied naked and exposed to the roof with some sort of twine. This fits in perfectly with the Tolerant Left’s caricature of Romney as cold, callous, and cruel.
It will be a huge issue to a lot of people — because the majority of the public does not read political sites and they vote for candidates because “I like his voice”, “He met my sister once”, “That wife of his is pretty”, and “I never heard nothing bad about him I guess”.
The “Mutt Romney” stuff will impact these people a lot and there is no way to counter it.
Can YOU think of something to effectively make this “Mutt Romney” thing go away once the Tolerant Left revs up the attack machine?
