From The New York Times:

Mitt Romney, a former governor of Massachusetts, denounced the “Eastern elites” that he said dominated the television broadcasts and editorial pages.

It would be worthwhile for the Times to have extended their characterization of Romney just a bit further to make clear what a bald-faced hypocrite he really is. Mitt Romney is, indeed, a former governor of Massachusetts; his father was the governor of Michigan. Romney Junior was given his first name, Willard, after his father's best friend, J. Willard Marriott, of the hotel chain Marriotts.

Willard Romney proceeded to graduate from an exclusive private school, received a ministerial deferment from the draft, and went off to France for thirty months as a missionary - not Angola, not Paraguay, France. On his return, he graduated from both Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School.

His business career took place mainly at Bain and Company, the most white-shoe of consulting firms. Romney went on to co-found Bain Capital, a subsidiary that made money primarily via leveraged buyouts.

It really doesn't get more elite than that. What's startling here isn't just the absence of coverage of what is arguably an important qualifier to a speech given on live national television, it's this: how dumb are republicans that they wouldn't notice being played for fools?

Mitt Romney is the Eastern Establishment. That he could get away with his attack lines says everything you need to know about the credulity of republicans.