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—Schopenhauer
This article is about a neologism. For the article about the Presidential candidate, see Mitt Romney

"Romney" is a neologism coined to refer to defecating in terror.

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[edit] Origin

Drawing on Dan Savage's campaign to re-brand "Santorum" in protest of the former senator's position on gay rights, a website is encouraging people to "spread Romney"[1].

The term references an incident [2] in which Mitt Romney, on a road trip with his family, drove for twelve hours with his dog Seamus[3] in a carrier strapped to the roof of his car. The Romneys were pulled over by the police as Seamus "Romneyed" all over the highway.

I was so bothered by the now-infamous story about Romney driving to Canada with a crated Irish setter strapped to the roof of his car: You can tell a lot about the content of a person's character by how he or she treats the vulnerable. In the case of Seamus the dog, Romney A) thought, unbelievably, that it was appropriate and/or humane to strap a dog to the roof of a moving vehicle, and B) was so wedded to his rigid itinerary of predetermined rest stops that he sprayed the dog down with a hose in a gas station parking lot after the understandably terrified canine wet itself at an inconvenient time. (…) And then there's John Lauber. The attack he endured scarred him for the remainder of his life and haunts its participants nearly half a century later, but Romney? You know, the "prankster" who pinned a gay man down and came at him with scissors as he screamed for help because Romney didn't like the way he styled his hair? He claims not to remember that it even happened at all.
—John Becker [4]

During Mitt's 2012 presidential campaign, the story resurfaced and became the topic of much consternation among Democrats and dog-lovers nationwide. [5]

[edit] Defense

The dog loved it according to Ann Romney, wife of the presidential hopeful.[6] Now does a dog really love being stuck on a roof away from his family?

[edit] Effectiveness

Currently, a Google search for "Romney" lists the Spreading Romney website as result #4. (Your results may vary).

[edit] Dogs Against Romney

The incident, much lampooned by Democrats and brushed off by Romney, has spawned another website, DogsAgainstRomney.com.[7] They maintain a fairly active Facebook presence and post pictures of dogs in the car with "I Ride Inside" as a caption. Anyone who opposes Mitt Romney can join their "superpack", there are T-shirts and other items you can buy.

On 12 February 2012, a car driven by a protester supporting the site, with an empty carrier strapped atop and a sign which read "The Seamus Express" was pulled over by Littleton, Colorado PD for fear that there might be a dog inside. The police knew that dogs should not be transported that way; Mitt Romney did not.

A Dogs Against Romney Pack Member was stopped by the Littleton, Colorado police yesterday for having a dog crate on the roof of his car. The Pack Member , identified only as "Oredigger," was on his way to protest at a Mitt Romney event yesterday with the crate atop his car carrying a stuffed toy dog when the police officer, believing he was actually transporting a live dog on the roof of his car, stopped him.
—Dogs Against Romney [8]

There are also many entertaining videos on YouTube [9] [10]

[edit] Windmill

On 13 March 2012, in response to Romney's skeptical-yet-clearly-misunderstanding sound bite on alternative energy about being unable to put a windmill on top of a car,[11] Stephen Colbert "agreed" with him by stating, "if you put a windmill on top of your car, where does the dog go?"[12]

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