Mitt Romney hits Barack Obama for eating dog meat in wake of Kristi Noem shooting her puppy... as he insists he 'loved' canine he strapped to car roof

Republican Sen. Mitt Romney was asked Tuesday astir South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem's dog-killing ungraded and utilized his reply to settee a people with his ex-political rival, erstwhile President Barack Obama.

Romney got dragged politically erstwhile helium ran for president successful 2008 and 2012 for strapping a favored bearer to the car extortion successful 1983 and traveling 12 hours to Canada with Seamus the Irish setter tucked inside. 

The canine protested by having diarrhea successful his crate - and Americans objected by not electing Romney and reelecting Democrat Obama instead.

Now with a caller dog-related governmental scandal, the Capitol Hill property corps swarmed Romney this week aft Noem, a imaginable VP prime for erstwhile President Donald Trump, outed herself arsenic a canine killer. 

'I didn't devour my dog. I didn't sprout my dog. I loved my canine and my canine loved me,' Romney told reporters, according to Mediaite.  

Obama admitted to eating canine nutrient arsenic a kid during the years helium and his parent lived successful Indonesia.

He made airy of his dog-related ungraded during the 2012 White House Correspondents' Dinner. 

'What's the quality betwixt a hockey ma and a pit bull?' helium asked, riffing disconnected the celebrated Sarah Palin line. 

'A pit bull is delicious,' Obama said. 

Noem's ungraded started when the Guardian got an aboriginal transcript of her caller book, No Going Back: The Truth connected What's Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward, and reported that she had gunned down her 14-month-old wirehaired pointer and a antheral goat. 

The politician said she wanted to amusement she's susceptible of dealing with thing that's 'difficult, messy and ugly.'

But critics, including Romney, mostly recovered the dog's decease unnecessary.  

'I cannot ideate circumstances that would pb 1 to instrumentality one's canine to a gravel pit, peculiarly an 11 period aged and sprout it,' the Utah legislator added, somewhat messing up Cricket's property astatine the clip of the dog's grisly death.

'Other radical whitethorn person a antithetic constituent of view,' Romney offered. 

In the book, the politician writes that she changeable Cricket, a 14-month-old wirehaired pointer astatine the gravel pit connected her household property, moments earlier her children came location from school. 

The dog, Noem claimed, had an 'aggressive personality' that couldn't beryllium tamed - arsenic evidenced by the information that Cricket ruined a pheasant hunt for being 'out of her caput with excitement, chasing each those birds and having the clip of her life.' 

Additionally erstwhile the South Dakota politician took Cricket with her to conscionable a section household the canine started sidesplitting the family's chickens similar 'a trained assassin.'

Cricket 'grabbed 1 chickenhearted astatine a time, crunching it to decease with 1 bite, past dropping it to onslaught another.'  

When Noem yet grabbed the canine she wrote that Cricket 'whipped astir to wound me.'

Cricket was 'the representation of axenic joy.' Meanwhile the chickens' proprietor wept.

Noem said she wrote a cheque 'for the terms they asked, and helped them dispose of the carcasses littering the country of the crime.' 

'I hated that dog,' Noem wrote, believing the 14-month-old pooch to beryllium 'untrainable,' 'dangerous to anyone she came successful interaction with' and 'less than worthless ... arsenic a hunting dog.' 

So she decided to termination Cricket.

'At that moment,' the politician wrote. 'I realized I had to enactment her down.' 

'It was not a pleasant job,' Noem said, 'but it had to beryllium done. And aft it was over, I realized different unpleasant occupation needed to beryllium done.' 

Noem decided to disconnected the household goat arsenic good due to the fact that helium was 'nasty and mean,' arsenic helium remained uncastrated and smelled 'disgusting, musky [and] rancid' and 'loved to chase' the governor's children.

She 'dragged him to the gravel pit' arsenic well, but the goat jumped arsenic she tried to sprout him, leaving him concisely alive.

Noem said she had to spell backmost to her motortruck and retrieve different ammunition and past 'hurried backmost to the gravel pit and enactment him down.' 

Her actions were witnessed, she said, by a operation unit moving nearby.

Moments later, the autobus dropped disconnected her kids. 

'Kennedy looked astir confused,' Noem recalled of her daughter, who asked, 'Hey where's Cricket?' 

Noem past admitted, 'I conjecture if I were a amended person I wouldn't archer the communicative here.' 

Since the nationalist outcry implicit her attraction of Cricket, Noem has been forced to respond aggregate times. 

On Friday Noem wrote connected X, 'We emotion animals, but pugnacious decisions similar this hap each the clip connected a farm.' 

'Sadly, we conscionable had to enactment down 3 horses a fewer weeks agone that had been successful our household for 25 years,' she said. 

'If you privation much real, honest, and politically INcorrect stories that'll person the media gasping, preorder "No Going Back,"' the politician added. 

On Sunday successful a station connected X, Noem described Cricket arsenic a 'working dog' though admitted 'I tin recognize wherefore immoderate radical are upset astir a 20 twelvemonth aged story.' 

She past argued she had a close to sprout him. 

'The information is, South Dakota instrumentality states that dogs who onslaught and termination livestock tin beryllium enactment down. Given that Cricket had shown assertive behaviour toward radical by biting them, I decided what I did,' she wrote.