#Mitt and the #Dog on top of the Car: Brown Liquid?

For Mitt #Romney, the dog days aren't over.

TODAY.com

        A nearly 30-year-old story involving the GOP hopeful's treatment of the family pooch resurfaced Wednesday in an ad produced by Newt Gingrich’s campaign.

          The ad, meant to appeal to canine lovers and question Romney’s ability to defeat President Obama, is titled “For the Dogs.’’ It rehashes a story first reported by the Boston Globe in 2007 about how Romney once drove with the family dog, #Seamus, tied to the roof of the car inside a special kennel during a 12-hour road trip to Canada in 1983.

           When Romney’s son noticed a brown liquid trickling down the side of the car, Romney stopped at a service station to hose off the kennel and the Irish setter, who had diarrhea, before returning Seamus to his rooftop perch for the rest of the drive.

COMMENT: I SAY PUT MITT IN A KENNEL AND HOSE HIM DOWN. 

COMMENT: CAN ANYONE CREATE A #SONG TITLED #“BROWN #LIQUID”?

            The dog has long since passed but the story is still alive: The ad surfaced on #Gingrich's first day of campaigning in South Carolina, shortly after he told reporters in New Hampshire that his staff is “not getting into personal stuff’’ when it comes to attacking Romney.

COMMENT: WHY ATTACK ROMNEY FOR PUTTING A DOG WITH DIARRHEA ON THE ROOF OF A CAR?  DOESN’T EVERYONE DO THAT?

         In the Gingrich ad, as plucking strings play in the background, the dog story is part of a montage of controversial Romney comments. The tag line: “The most important question this election: Who can defeat Barack Obama in the debates this fall?’’

          “I have a yellow lab named Winston. I would no sooner put him in a kennel on the roof of my car than I would one of my children,’’ Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace asks Romney in an old interview featured in the clip. “Question: What were you thinking?”

           "This is a completely air-tight kennel and mounted on the top of our car,” Romney tells Wallace.

COMMENT:  HOW DID SEAMUS BREATHE IN AN AIR TIGHT KENNEL?  AS RACHEL MADDOW ASKED, “DID HE HAVE SCUBA GEAR?”

           “He climbed up there regularly, enjoyed himself. He was in a kennel at home, a great deal of time as well. We loved the dog. It was where he was comfortable and we had five kids inside the car. My guess is he liked it a lot better in his kennel than he would have liked it inside."

COMMENT: MITT, THE DOG MIND READER.

           Gingrich does not own any pets.

COMMENT: NOTE TO NEWT: GET A PET.