COMMENTARY | Mitt Romney's dog, Seamus, is a story that, unfortunately for the GOP front runner, just won't die, and one that has plagued him throughout his political career.
Just today, on Fox News, Lanny Davis wrote a story surmising that Romney shouldn't be president. Davis isn't alone. Others are still chiming in too; for example, competitor Newt Gingrich's unaffiliated SuperPac took aim this week, according to a Wednesday report by ABC News, alleging the Romney lacks the judgment to be president, and citing the candidate's lack of judgment, 30 years gone by. The continued media attention, and none of it good for Romney, has me asking a question of my own:
Did Ron Paul's children ride in the back of an open pickup? Did Newt Gingrich's? How about Rick Perry's? Did any of the candidates ever let their dogs ride, untethered in the back of a pickup? One wouldn't think such a question would be important in the midst of a presidential campaign, but apparently, According to the Inquistr, it is.
At the heart of the story is the fact that 29 years ago, Romney made an unorthodox choice on how to transport his family dog. In his case, for lack of a pickup truck, the former governor of Massachusetts strapped the dog in, what he told Chris Wallace (in a Fox interview), an "air-tight kennel" that the dog "loved being in."
That hasn't been enough to quell pet lovers, though, who feel that Romney was unwise in the handling of his animal, and outraged that he is unrepentant for being so abusive. I say "hogwash!"
We live in a nation where in March 2011, according to pickuptrucks.com, it was still legal in some states (in the cited case, Arizona) to cart your children around in the back of an open pickup truck and where there were civil liberty protests when lawmakers tried to close that gap in sanity.
We can't continue to judge a candidate's fitness for office, on the basis of decisions they made 30 years before popular wisdom told them it was the wrong choice to make. If we do that, we end up demonizing people for all of the wrong things, and let's face it: Romney's political views are enough, by themselves to discredit him.
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