As we've discussed previously, Mitt Romney's attack on Donald Trump was as transparently hypocritical as it was misguided. Here was a two-time failed candidate levying a series of charges against Trump - most of which Harry Reid had previously used against Romney himself. It was the weakest of cheap shots.
Within a day it became clear to anyone who was watching the 2016 election that the speech had succeeded only in that it further divided the GOP or strengthened Trump's position. It was, to be blunt, a grotesque miscalculation.