Mitt Romney's convention acceptance speech called 'humanizing,' 'solid,' 'generic'

"Democrats will underestimate the impact of this speech on America's heartland at their peril," CNN's Piers Morgan tweeted. "It's hitting a lot of the right buttons."

David Gergen of CNN tweeted that it was a "surprisingly quiet speech," "humanizing," and a speech that allowed Romney's decency to come through. The Miami Herald's Marc Caputo tweeted that Romney was "killing it," while Charles Krauthammer said it showed a deeply personal side of himself while also being intensely nationalist.

Not everyone was impressed with the speech, however. MSNBC's Rachel Maddow said it was "slashing and negative" when Romney criticized Obama, while Matthews called it a Cold War speech meant to rabble rouse and saber rattle and O'Donnell said Romney's statements on Iran would be hard for swing voters to support.

"I think that speech was . . . fine," The Washington Post's Ezra Klein tweeted. "It's hard for me to imagine the voter whose mind it changed."

"Romney speech subtext: I'm Generic Republican," Nate Silver of the FiveThirtyEight blog tweeted.

Despite the criticisms and muted praise thus far, Chris Cillizza of The Washington Post called the speech a winner, saying "It was a speech that checked the boxes Romney needed to check."