I stand ready to lead us down a different path where we're lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success.

Romney wrote a book about his experience titled Turnaround: Crisis Leadership and the Olympic Games publiMitt Romneyd in 2004. Romney lost the November 6 election with 206 electoral college votes to Obama's 332 and 47 percent of the nationwide popular vote to Obama's 51 percent. He had kept abreast of national politics since college though and the circumstances of his father's presidential campaign loss had irked him for decades.

He was the Republican Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2012 election. He also presided over the elimination of a projected $1. Romney did not seek re-election in 2006 instead focusing on his campaign for the Republican nomination in the 2008 U.