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It might be unseemly to bring this up just as Mitt Romney celebrates his win in New Hampshire on Tuesday night and seems to be a strong front-runner for the GOP nomination. But the story of his putting his dog in a carrier on his car roof for a 12-hour family trip is spreading again on the Internet and disturbs me the more I learn about it.
 
And I am betting the more it gets out, the more votes Romney loses â€" red, blue and purple.
 
When, in a campaign debate, Romney opposed allowing a non-documented worker who has lived here for 25 years to stay and earn his way to citizenship, he struck me as heartless.
 
But when I read the story recently in greater detail about what Romney did to his Irish Setter, Seamus, that struck me as more than heartless â€" it struck me as downright cruel.

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