My dog is on the roof
My dog is on the roof

from Hugh Atkin (Ft. Barack Obama, Mitt Romney & Newt Gingrich) – Will The Real Mitt Romney Please Stand Up? Lyrics on Rap Genius

A reference to a 2007 Boston Globe story, resurrected for this campaign, about a 1983 vacation Romney took with his family. As the story goes, Romney never let his family, except for his wife, stop to take bathroom breaks while driving. This also applied to Seamus, the family’s Irish setter, who on this trip was strapped in a crate on the roof of their car. The story continues:

Somewhere along the way, poor Seamus soiled the crate and the car’s back window. As The Globe reported it, Romney stopped at a gas station, hosed down Seamus and the car, put the dog back into the wind-protected kennel and drove on

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