Romney shifts, steers campaign bus to right lane

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BY ROBYNN TYSVER
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER

OSKALOOSA, Iowa - Republican Mitt Romney lectured his five sons on the do-or-die nature of business after they gave him a 1962 Rambler for his 60th birthday.

The Rambler lacked seat belts, had a huge steering wheel and, Romney said, was a good reminder that change is not optional in business.


Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney fields questions at an "Ask Mitt Anything" luncheon last month in Mount Pleasant, Iowa.


"You either get better or someone else does and they can put you out of business," said Romney, son of the Detroit auto executive who banked his career on the compact Rambler in 1957.

Romney is running for president as a turnaround artist, a Type A businessman who will do for America what he did as a venture capitalist in Boston and as head of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. He wants to bring a culture of change to government with an emphasis on maintaining America's standing as an economic and military powerhouse.

"I spent my life in the private sector, learning how to change things to make it better," Romney says with machine-gun rapidity, securing his unofficial title as fastest talker on the campaign trail.

"I got to change a couple of businesses and make them better. I got to change the Olympic experience out of Utah. They were in deep trouble. I came there, and we got that turned around."

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