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MITT ROMNEY tells the audience at a town-hall meeting here how his kids got him a 1962 Rambler-the American Motors car produced by his dad George Romney-for his 60th birthday. It seems just a charming story to warm up the crowd. Romney says, “We got it started, drove it up the road-and then pushed it home.” People laugh. But Romney is really telling a parable about his favorite theme: change.

He says his 1962 car had no arm rest, no seatbelts, no bucket seats, and a great big steering wheel that it took a lot of muscle to turn. “Cars have changed a lot,” he says. And then he launches into his real point: “People selling us goods and services figure out they got to make them better every year.” The people who run government feel no similar obligation, especially in Washington where “talk is the currency.”

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MITT ROMNEY tells the audience at a town-hall meeting here how his kids got him a 1962 Rambler-the American Motors car produced by his dad George Romney-for his 60th birthday. It seems just a charming story to warm up the crowd. Romney says, “We got it started, drove it up the road-and then pushed it home.” People laugh. But Romney is really telling a parable about his favorite theme: change.

He says his 1962 car had no arm rest, no seatbelts, no bucket seats, and a great big steering wheel that it took a lot of muscle to turn. “Cars have changed a lot,” he says. And then he launches into his real point: “People selling us goods and services figure out they got to make them better every year.” The people who run government feel no similar obligation, especially in Washington where “talk is the currency.”