Mitt Romney, Weather Man - NYTimes.com BRUNSWICK, Ohio - As the rain slowed to a light spit, the bloated periwinkle clouds faded to white and the sun crested, Mitt Romney showered the crowd at a Father's Day pancake breakfast here with a hail of weather metaphors. After acknowledging the "courage" of the more than a thousand people who had braved the storm and fashioned ponchos out of black garbage bags, Mr. Romney, who took the stage shortly after the rain had stopped, glanced skyward in search of a political lesson. "But it looks like the sun is coming out, and I think that's a metaphor for the country," he said. The sun is coming out, guys! Three and a half years of dark clouds are about to part. It's about to get a little warmer around this country, a little brighter. A few minutes later, Mr. Romney returned to the weather, basking in its warmth. "Boy, that sun feels good, you know that?" he said. 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. He promised that "things are getting better in America," as long as the country abandons the track that President Obama has set down. Offering a few broad solutions of his own, Mr. Romney again turned to a barometrically inspired suggestion. "We finally have to get a balanced budget in this country, and I'll get us on the road to do that," he said. We've got to get rid of that one piece of legislation which is like a great cloud that's been raining over small business, made it over for them to start new enterprises and create new jobs. Mr. Romney was in Ohio as part of his Every Town Counts bus tour, and two of his five sons - Matt and Craig - joined him for Father's Day. Introducing them, Mr. Romney said: "I love them like they're my own - and they are!"