Romney's Speech: C-

Whew.

Well, the opportunities for the Romney campaign to hit a game-changing homer keep slipping away with base hits at best.

Absolutely nothing remarkable about the speech. Probably about as bad as we could have hoped for--not a disaster, but that's really just not going to happen. Such a speech is either going to be mediocre or good, and we got mediocre.

Even Castellanos couldn't come up with anything more positive than "solid" to describe it.

And even Rubio and Christie can't really put any real energy behind their pro forma praise of the speech.