During a 1983 family vacation, Mitt Romney drove 12 hours with his dog on top of  the car in a windshield-equipped carrier. This incident became the subject of  negative media attention and political attacks on Romney in both the 2008 and  the 2012 presidential elections.
Dec 11, 2011 ... “Before beginning the drive, Mitt Romney put Seamus, the family's hulking Irish  setter, in a dog carrier and attached it to the station wagon's roof rack,” the ... “ Maybe we could get over his driving to Canada with the family dog strapped to  the roof of the car if he'd just admit it was because he was too cheap to ...
Apr 25, 2012 ... Regardless of your politics, can you conceive of strapping a kennel on the car  roof, dog inside, and driving at a high speed for 12 hours? ... know the story, the  Romneys strapped a dog kennel to the roof of their car with their Irish setter,  Seamus, inside, and drove 12 hours to their summer house in Canada.
Mar 14, 2012 ... It happened more than a quarter century ago, at the start of a Romney family  summer vacation. But the tale of Seamus, the Irish setter who got sick while riding  12 hours on the roof of Mitt Romney's faux-wood-paneled station wagon, is  ballooning into a narrative of epic proportions. It has come to ...
Feb 16, 2012 ... Paging Gail Collins: the shameful tale of Seamus, Mitt Romney's Irish setter— whom the candidate stuck in a crate and strapped to the roof of his car on ... ...  According to a piece on Politicker yesterday, Romney's sons told reporters in an  off-record conversation that the dog ran away when the family got to ...
Mitt Romney "drove to Canada with the family dog Seamus strapped to the roof of the car."