On bus tour, Romney hauls out the weather metaphors

BRUNSWICK, Ohio - It was pouring rain at the outdoor pancake breakfast in this northern Ohio town just moments before Mitt Romney arrived to address the crowd on Father's Day. But moments after taking the stage, the sun began to shine on the nearly 1,000 breakfast-goers, leading the presumptive GOP nominee to compare the improving weather to the state of the country -- as long as Barack Obama is voted out of office.

"Boy, that sun feels good, you know that?" Romney said to the crowd as people began putting away their umbrellas and removing plastic garbage bags that acted as rain ponchos. "Things are drying out here. This feels great! And I can tell you something else - the sun is coming out in this country. Our brightest days are ahead. Things are getting better in America as long as we get off the course he's put us on."

Romney continued the weather metaphors throughout his speech, telling the Ohioans that "three and a half years of dark clouds are about to part." He even found a weather-related way to attack the president's signature piece of legislation, the Affordable Care Act, which he called "a great cloud that's been raining over small business."

Romney is on the third day of his bus tour through battleground states, with Sunday's itinerary taking him across the state of Ohio. Two of his sons -- Matt and Craig -- flew in to join their dad on the trail, along with their wives and five of Romney's grandchildren.

At Sunday's initial event in Brunswick, Romney was not interrupted by a mass of protestors as he was on Saturday. But at a subsequent appearance in Newark, Ohio, at least 25 protestors shouted so loudly that Ann Romney remarked to the crowd at one point, "It looks like we're having an emergency in the background."

The Democratic National Committee has been doggedly following the tour and held a news confernce on Sunday afternoon in Madison, Wis., to highlight what it said were Romney's failures as Massachusetts' governor and what it said was his wrongheaded economic agenda.

"This bus tour is called the `Romney Economics: Middle Class Under the Bus Tour,''' DNC spokesman Brad Woodhouse said. "It's a fitting name because that's exactly what Romney Economics would do for the middle-class and the hardworking people across this country. He'd actually throw the middle class under the bus to advance his trickle-down economics agenda to protect the very wealthy people like him in this country at the expense of the hard-working people in Wisconsin."

The DNC also sent the media articles on how Romney had to reschedule an event in Pennsylvania after Obama supporters rallied at the bus tour stop.

Both of Romney's sons used the occasion of Father's Day to pay tribute to the man who raised them, along with their mother Ann. Matt, Romney's second oldest, told a story about how his father had helped out when his wife was on bed rest during a pregnancy, building her a television cabinet and installing cable in her bedroom and finding someone to help her run errands.

"I just look at that," Matt said while sharing the stage with his dad. "He taught me to be both a father and a husband. "

Romney's youngest son, Craig, was also in attendance, along with his son Parker, who was often seen on the trail with his grandfather in 2008.

The family is traveling throughout the state with Romney along with Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, who served pancakes with the group following Romney's speech. Portman is considered a likely contender for the vice presidential nomination, though he downplayed the possibility when it was brought up by one of his constituents in the pancake line.

"I'm happy where I am, you know?" Portman told the man. "I'm lucky to be where I am."

[rayward73446]

CBS news is abusing the commitment to report on both candidates equally. This website is filled with Romney stories, and very few stories on Obama. This is not a singular case, most news operations are doing the same thing. I say report on both equaly or not at all. CBS and other news channels and websites shamelessly pander to the GOP, promote and report on the GOP candidates much more than Obama, and democrats. They are stacking the deck to get Romney into office, and politically are allied with the GOP. This is unfair and disgusting to let thei politics affect their reporting and publishing of the news.

[tommytamocha]

Imagine if Mitt Romney openly acknowledged his Mexican roots, touted his universal healthcare MA plan, was gay friendly, believed in equal pay for equal work, was cool and not such a putz. He'd be kind of hot.

[ludvig1-2009]

The area I live in in Northern California, the economy is already getting better under Obama. The local paper, a conservative rag, says the sales taxes in our town are almost back to pre-recession levels. Housing prices have gone up. In nearby Stockton, the Stockton Records says Stockton is one of the nation's leaders in job creation. Why go back to the failed Repuglican policies of making the rich richer and the poor poorer?

[satin_lingerie]

It is ironic how Mitt Romney lies on all topics and then twists the facts to his liking and blames President Obama on every issue.

1. Mittens says the President is to blame for the Great Recession.

Answer: George W. Bush 2000-2007 bad economic principles in deregulating the housing industry, deregulating Wall Street, removing funds for FEMA, removing National Security funding and opening the doors to a mucked up environment leading to 9/11.

2. Mittens says it is President Obama's fault for having a lack of money every year.

[lee_mcbride]

Nice try attempting to rewrite history. 1. Mittens has never said that Obama is to blame for the Great Recession - only that the "recovery" under Obama has been the most impotent ever. Try blaming the collapse on the housing market where it truly belongs: the dims taking over congress after the 2006 midterms and Barney Frank's misplaced pandering. 2. This is a no brainer. Of course Mittens blames Obama for lack of money. Obama blew it all on the failed porkulus - Solydra just the tip of the iceberg. Not to mention all of the "not so ready, shovel-ready jobs" that the big O laughed about later.

[satin_lingerie]

Answer: George W. Bush gave President Obama a $1.3 trillion budget deficit in 2008. Collectively the National Debt increase $8 trillion during the years of the two Bush Presidents because they waged wars and did not increase taxes to pay for the wars so the next President would have to clean up their mess.

[satin_lingerie]

Every Romney sound bite is blaming President Obama and it is unjustified and obscene. Given a chance Mittens would blame him for the weather.

It is ironic how Mitt Romney lies on all topics and then twists the facts to his liking and blames President Obama on every issue.

1. Mittens says the President is to blame for the Great Recession.

Answer: George W. Bush 2000-2007 bad economic principles in deregulating the housing industry, deregulating Wall Street, removing funds for FEMA, removing National Security funding and opening the doors to a mucked up environment leading to 9/11.

2. Mittens says it is President Obama's fault for having a lack of money every year.

[satin_lingerie]

Answer: George W. Bush gave President Obama a $1.3 trillion budget deficit in 2008. Collectively the National Debt increase $8 trillion during the years of the two Bush Presidents because they waged wars and did not increase taxes to pay for the wars so the next President would have to clean up their mess.

[sjc_1]

Here is a weather metaphor, Romney is a Political Windsock. He will point to where the wind is blowing and say anything to be elected. We should see this in the flip flops and lack of specifics.

[buckeye541]

YEAHHHH!!! Obama would NEVER use an event to be reelected, would he? And no flip flops EVER, right? Lack of specifics, NO, not one. sjc1 go back to Never-Never Land.

[sjc_1]

If that is the best you have, forget it turkey.