For years, I’ve had a piece of advice for politicians (and don’t nobody listen to me): When you read a speech from a teleprompter, you’re giving the illusion that you’re reciting the speech from memory. Or that you’re speaking it extemporaneously. So, when you get to a quotation, don’t keep reading the teleprompter. Look down at a piece of paper, on which the quote is written. Because no one expects you to have memorized the quote. You simply look weird when you keep reading from the teleprompter.

But that’s what they all do.

Except Romney. Earlier today, Mitt Romney looked down at a piece of paper, to read a quotation from John Adams.

Mirabile dictu (as WFB would say).

This is probably the least important thing about Mitt’s speech, but everything else has been commented on.

P.S. Hold on to your socks, because I’m going to defend Donald Trump. According to Politico, he responded to Romney “in typical fashion — with a crude sex joke.” Let me keep quoting the article:

“I backed Mitt Romney. He was begging for my endorsement,” Trump said at a rally in Portland, Maine[,] Thursday. “I could have said[,] ‘Mitt, drop to your knees.’ He would have dropped to his knees.”

Dropped to his knees to beg, Trump meant, I’m sure. Come on, y’all. Geezum (as they say in Maine).