Mitt Romney held a rally in Bettendorf, Iowa for what looks to be about maybe 1,000 people, and I'm being generous.
Check out the video I linked above. It's a short video. Romney starts speaking at about the 9:00 mark and it's all over by the 32:00 mark.
A 23 minute stump speech by Mitt Romney. But it seemed much longer as I was watching it.
I don't expect people to watch the whole thing but skip around it and you get a good sense of just how uninspiring and flat Romney was compared to what we are seeing with Trump today.
Low energy! And when he tried to go "after" Obama, he looked kind of like Richie Cunningham going after The Fonz, complete with the stutters and the over-earnestness to be "nice and polite" about it.
As he's leaving the podium after the speech, he even throws in a dorky Jeb Bush style "half-run half-walk" routine.
I post this not to ridicule Mitt Romney...well okay, maybe a little bit...but to point out just how bad it would have been for us had Jeb Bush gotten the nomination. It would have been a repeat of 2012.
Near as I can tell Mitts speech started about the 7:30 mark and was over about the 30:40 mark. So maybe 23 minutes.