Polls and pundits show former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum leading the GOP race for the Republican presidential nomination. Following Tuesday’s Southern primaries, in which Santorum won Alabama and Mississippi, Romney called the Santorum campaign “desperate.” In response, Rick Santorum’s campaign is using Romney’s treatment of his now-deceased dog, Seamus, to show that Romney lacks good judgement. Romney has admitted to strapping his Irish Setter’s kennel to the roof of his vehicle during 12 hour trip to Canada, but claims the dog loved it.
“Quite frankly, I’m not sure I’m going to listen to a value judgement of a guy who strapped his own dog on the top of a car and went hurling down the highway,” top Santorum adviser John Brabender said Wednesday on CNN’s ‘Starting Point.’ Brabender is one of many who find Romney’s treatment of his family pet to be reprehensible. Dogs Against Romney, an Internet-based campaign, has more than 37,000 Facebook fans.
While it’s true that Romney’s treatment of his dog undoubtedly reveals “poor judgement,” whether or not Santorum’s campaign is speaking from a place of genuine concern for animal rights and welfare remains to be seen.
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http://twitter.com/Winafish Remy Chevalier
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