I agree - it doesn't matter if he used a teleprompter... sounds like he delivered a GREAT speech. Can't wait to see/hear the entire thing...
SE Mom: Thanks for the link to Romney's speech!
Teleprompters are fine- I really don’t have a problem with them on particular occasions. But they do not need to be EVERYWHERE, ALL THE TIME, unless you’re O. He cannot FUNCTION without one.
I see him as being caught in a trap. He CANNOT say what he REALLY thinks (witness- you didn’t build that, spread the wealth, etc.) without EVERYONE finding out he really IS a marxist and -he doesn’t know HOW to say what’s true and real. That trap makes it vital that he use a teleprompter- and it should have long ago raised eyebrows. Seriously.
I was at Romney’s rally in Apopka FL on Saturday. He spoke for about 15 minutes or so- not a teleprompter in sight.
I watched it on the CSPAN site and I thought it was good - not great, perhaps, but very solid and very specific.
As for the teleprompters, remember, these devices were just supposed to prompt; that is, if a speaker got lost, distracted by a question, etc., his planned remarks would be visible.
It looked to me as if Romney had rehearsed carefully and while he may have had the teleprompters, he really didn’t need them. He was moving his head because he wanted to take in the entire audience (when I give talks, I do this too), but he didn’t move his eyes and was not reading.
Romney’s a little odd looking personally and stiff in his speech, and he’s never going to be completely natural and fluid in his delivery. But then, Obama is positively freaky looking and a horrible, confused speaker unless he is hiding under some radical leftist black imam persona, which is where he seems to get his groove. But that’s obviously for a very limited audience, and when Bambi speaks even extemporaneously to other audiences, he is clearly looking for his teleprompter. He’s full of stammers, stutters, “uhs” and silences. Romney isn’t.
And as for content, there’s no comparison: Romney is saying the right things and willing to be specific (although I want to know more about his idea of arming the Syrian “rebels,” because they are not necessarily on our side). Obama is saying nothing, and saying it badly.
And for my part, I say this all as somebody who didn’t like Romney and was very depressed when I realized that he was the prearranged GOP-E victor. But I think he does have a core belief (which is that he doesn’t hate and in fact likes the US) and he’s risen to the challenge very well. I have no reservations about voting for him now.
Still, I think we should all write to his campaign and tell him that we don’t want to go on arming the “Arab Spring,” which is nothing but an Al Qaida/radical Islamic front that would kill us as soon as look at us.