Mitt Romney Tortures Animals

From Time magazine:

PETA does not have a position on Romney's candidacy
per se, but Newkirk called the incident "a lesson in cruelty that was ... wrong
for [his children] to witness...Thinking of the wind, the weather, the speed,
the vulnerability, the isolation on the roof, it is commonsense that any dog
who's under extreme stress might show that stress by losing control of his
bowels: that alone should have been sufficient indication that the dog was,
basically, being tortured." Romney, of course, has expressed support for the use
of "enhanced interrogation" techniques when it comes to terrorists; his campaign
refused to comment about the treatment of his dog.

Ok, he's not catching squirrels and lighting their tails on fire, but he straps his dog's animal carrier to the roof of his car for a TWELVE HOUR DRIVE from Boston to Ontario... And jokes about having to clean excrement from the roof and windows! He literally scares the shit out of his dog... Can there be ANY justifiable, spinnable response to this from the Romney camp? The dog is so terrified he loses complete control of his bowels-- cause he's whipping down the highway at speeds of 65+mph, all alone in a little plastic box wobbling on top of a car?? The press jumps all over Britney Spears when she held her child in her lap while driving (which was indeed a careless and dangerous thing to do,) I hope Romney gets the same treatment!