Mitt Romney's populist speech that wowed the Republican National Convention left the so-called Elite Media scratching its heads. (Click here for the video of the speech.)

The Dallas Morning News puzzled over it:

Listening to Mitt Romney address the Republican National Convention, you'd hardly know that Republicans have held the White House 28 of the last 40 years, nominated seven of the nine Supreme Court justices and held Congress for 12 of the last 14 years.

We need change all right," he told cheering GOP delegates. "Change from a liberal Washington to a conservative Washington!"

The Wall Street Journal's Law Blog asked its readers to help make sense of Romney's curious statement about the Supreme Court:

Let me ask you — what do you think Washington is right now, liberal or conservative?

Is a Supreme Court decision liberal or conservative that awards Guantanamo terrorists with constitution rights?* It’s liberal!

WSJ says the night was supposed to be about Sarah Palin's speech: But we’ll also remember it for another reason: Mitt Romney’s line about the Supreme Court.

Andrew Sullivan at the Atlantic called Mitt's oratory “A largely content-free speech that went out on a limb, defending patriotism, attacking liberals, vowing to defeat evil and defend the family."

I was somewhat surprised to hear that the GOP is about cutting spending, and restraining government, and that liberals have been in charge for the last quarter of a century - but, hey, this is the Republican Convention. Reality is what they say it is.”

Even the conservative The Washington Times was given pause, finally guessing that Mitt has his eyes on the 2012 presidential race and the speech was "by far the most obvious attempt to further solidify his reputation among the GOP hardcore conservative base as their standard-bearer."

The speech can only be called nakedly partisan, and it talks minimally about John McCain. Instead, it is a fire and brimstone screed of conservative vs. liberal.

And it isn't just the American Elite Media—Daniel Nasaw a Brit observing for the Guardian says:

I'm totally baffled by Mitt Romney's speech to the GOP convention. The conventioneers responded like the crocodiles being fed raw meat in the Bond flick Live and Let Die. But taken even on their face, his words are an indictment of the Republican party whose nomination he spent roughly $35 million to win.

Tell me Mitt isn't coming back gangbusters in 2012.

*One WSJ reader's answer: The Constitution is neither liberal nor conservative. Thank God this guy’s millions couldn’t buy him the Presidency.