It was an innocent enough moment. Mitt Romney was delivering yet another campaign stump speech in Irwin, Pennsylvania last month but all of a sudden something strange happened. The crowd rose to its feet and started cheering... and cheering...and cheering. The applause continued for a long time...sixteen seconds. 

It wasn't because the speech was over or Romney criticized some of President Obama's policies. It wasn't even because Romney took the president to task for his controversial, "You didn't build it" line. 

This was something totally different. 

He actually mentioned the "G" word: God! Not only that but he managed to weave the Almighty and government into the same sentence by saying, "Let's stop and think about the system of government and what it tells us in our founding document, the Declaration of Independence. It does not say that the government gave us our rights. It says that God gave us our rights. They came with us not with government!"