I predict Trump's address tonight might be viewed as the historically worst acceptance speech....

[Tommy_Carcetti]

...from any major party candidate, at least in the modern era.

And that's all prejudices aside, mind you. I'm thinking purely objectively here.

Because either Trump speaks using off of a teleprompter with something prepared by speechwriters (probably not Meredith McIver, though) and sounds extremely stifled, unnatural and insincere as he typically does in that situation....

....or.....

He doesn't use a teleprompter and goes into his usual rambling, incoherent self-promoting blabbering we've heard on the campaign trail, rattling off his various business entities and delving into shallow personal attacks and grandiose yet vague posturing.

I don't know. It just seems like a no-win situation for him.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

1. I don't know. I heard this guy John Barron talk about this being the bestest, classiest big league

speech. I gotta say he sounded convincing.

[exboyfil]

2. Is he going to take the opportunity to sell

Trump branded products? The only time I have ever listened to him for an extended period it was like the QVC channel (water, steaks, etc.)

[Else You Are Mad]

3. I think...

The speech will be bigly good. Tremendous! Trump has the best speeches!

[onecaliberal]

10. That gave me a good laugh, thanks.

[unblock]

4. but ratings will be high. he has created drama and interest

the whole convention could have been a boring formality.

not likely be design, but like a bull in a china shop, he created drama.

his speech will be boring, but it will be watched.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

6. It will henceforth be known as the Cleveland Steamer. nt

[unblock]

7. and his cleveland brownshirts?

[Bluenorthwest]

22. I doubt it. So far the ratings are down from 2012 which was down from 2008.....

Night Three, last night, very much down from Night Three 2012. 2012 was Mitt Fest, a study in boredom and chagrin and it outpaced this year.

[arcane1]

30. I don't know why they drag these things on so long anyway.

One day's worth of actual work being done, then days of boring speeches

[C_U_L8R]

5. Trump's totally boring on teleprompter

and unprompted, he's totally sarah-palin-word-salad-batshit.
I'm hoping for the more entertaining option.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

11. Me too. nt

[PearliePoo2]

8. Yeah, if he is on the TelePrompTer he sounds robotic.

Plus, he has that "sniffling " nasal breathing thing that is beyond distracting. BUT, if he goes unscripted, there's the almost certainty he says some weird off the wall shit and insults people or go all CT. His handlers are saying prayers he stays scripted but he's a sociopath, so who the hell knows?

[tallahasseedem]

25. I notice he does the nasal thing...

during what the media considers "big speeches". Meaning, I think he takes something (speed?) beforehand. If this trend continues tonight, I think it will be worse than ever!

[greymattermom]

9. He'll probably start on teleprompter

but when he doesn't get the applause he wants, he'll go off it. So, my guess is that we will see both bad Trumps in one speech.

[Mendocino]

12. The O symbol his little hands

constantly gesticulate, I can't decide whether that represents his mouth or his butthole since the same crap pours out of each.

[hatrack]

13. I'm hoping for the Full Queeg . . . a rambling, paranoid rant that just goes on and on and on . . .

.

[bullwinkle428]

14. So basically - "Mussolini on crystal meth"! Me too, along with whether

we see "Melanoma" up on the stage with him.

[OldHippieChick]

34. "Strawberries ..."

Let us hope ...

[NewJeffCT]

15. Is he going to promote his vision for America

or, is he going to just use it to bash Hillary on emails, Benghazi, Vince Foster, etc.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

16. The problem is that the Corporate Media will lower the bar. If he says his name right, they'll call

it great!

[Johonny]

17. Both his sons speeches were highly crafted piles of crap. I imagine his will be the same

the only way it will be interesting is if he goes of script.

[tblue37]

23. And the MSM praised both of those stupid speeches to the skies, just as they

praised Melania's speech, until someone pointed out that it was plagiarized. Even now they still praise Melania's stage presence and offer her sympathy for the screw-up.

[tallahasseedem]

26. I don't think he can help himself...

If he does, it will be a thing of beauty for all of us!

[bigwillq]

18. Trump supporters will love it no mattee what he says (nt)

[Mass]

19. In a few years from now, but given what the media have declared GOOD performances at the Convention

I have no doubt they will find his performance excellent.

They judged Pence and Melania (pre-plagiagate), great, and talked about Don Jr as a future candidate to the presidency, so, short of Trump coming on stage drunk (he does not dring), or people throwing tomatoes at him, they will find this good.

[LuvNewcastle]

24. Yes, they've given him a free pass

for the last year or so. Why should tonight be any different? If he gives a mediocre speech, they'll praise it to the skies. Americans are really being played in this election. I wonder how many can sense that there is something deeply wrong about all of this, even if they aren't sure what it is.

[Different Drummer]

31. If they had the ability to sense it

Trumpy never would have gotten this far.

[lpbk2713]

20. "Poor Donald. He can't help it."

"He was born with a silver foot in his mouth."

[SDJay]

21. I Hope He Decides

to use this opportunity to right all the wrongs that have been foisted upon him by all those meanies in the liberal media, those who live in the reality universe and those who DARE criticize him.

I hope the entire damn thing is all about Drumpf and how he's been wronged. C'mon, Yammering Yam... whine for 45 minutes straight for me. Please proceed.

[tallahasseedem]

27. From your lips (fingers)

to his ears!

[gopiscrap]

28. yeah but watch the MSM slobber all over it

[left-of-center2012]

29. WRONG !

Trump has already said this will be the best speech ever given in American history.
Or was it world history?

He said his wife's speech was the best political speech ever given. ('course, he didn't give credit to Michelle Obama)

[Different Drummer]

32. If he's not scripted, it will be the greatest

sitcom episode ever.

[merrily]

33. I heard it starts, "Four score and seven years ago..."

[Nevernose]

35. And what a contrast to Bill Clinton's 2012 speech

Where he ad-libbed and the talking heads were so blown away.

Trump MIGHT be able to read off the TelePrompTer, so long as he doesn't think about it. If tbe speech is longer than ten minutes or so there's a very real chance he wanders off script in search of the live auddience's applause, never realizing how dumb he sounds to the rest of the world.

And you know why he sounds dumb so often? Because he's not a very smart man. He does have the certain low cunning of a sociopath wherein he can say things until he perceives an emotional response and then solicit more such responses. Buts that not the same as intelligence: that's how my dog operates.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

36. Bill Clinton is an absolute master at seemlessly ad libbing speeches.

http://articles.latimes.com/1993-09-23/news/mn-38221_1_wrong-speech

Wrong Speech Pops Up on TelePrompTer

September 23, 1993| Associated Press

WASHINGTON — It was billed as the most important speech of Bill Clinton's presidency. It was also--for a few minutes--the wrong speech.

When Clinton stepped to the lectern Wednesday night to speak about health care, there was a TelePrompTer in front of him to scroll the text of his speech. The machine began displaying a speech, but it was the Feb. 17 address that Clinton delivered the last time he went before a joint session of Congress.

The President made a quick comment to Vice President Al Gore, seated behind him, and Gore immediately left to alert aides.

"It took five to seven minutes to fix while he was speaking," said David Dreyer, a communications staffer. Undeterred, Clinton went on talking.

[Nevernose]

37. And his other public speaking gifts

(Amazing story, by the way, one of the few I hadn't ever heard)

Bill is really good at taking complex issues and breaking them down so that they maintain their integrity and nuance while at the same time being understandable to every redneck Bubba in Arkansas. It's kind of sad now to see how the redneck Bubbas treat him and his legacy back in Arkansas -- he's one of them, maybe more Arkansas white trash than most people the world looks down on, and he was elected president. Twice.

His other gift in interpersonal communication was just remembering people. I know a waiter at a fancy place in Little Rock, been there for years. He said Clinton came in when he was governor in the 80s, glad handed him and asked his name and all the usual politician bullshit. But then Bill went back to that restaurant, after he was president, more than fifteen years later, and remembered the waiter's name. Who does that? Who even has that ability?

IMO Bill gets a lot of flak, much of it deserved, but still did more good than bad.