it s not like he made a maim for himself. months later out of nowhere. for what reason? i mean, mitt romney, i m sure he didn t get paid for his interview. that doesn t matter. i m sure mitt romney has learned the lessons from his campaign. the mistakes that he made on camera, off camera, behind the scenes and i m sure he s very contemplative about that. i expect at cpac for him to be humble and to sort of jolt the base back into an exciting kind of mood. se kupp always great to see you. you can watch weekdays at 3:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc. joining us now is the man who beat allen west in the 2012 election, florida s democratic congressman patrick murphy. sir to great to have you join us. thanks, tom. president obama will be traveling to capitol hill for the third time in as many days. he s going to meet with senate republicans and then house
absolutely. with cpac kicking off into high gear, anticipation is growing as mitt romney getting ready to reemerge from the shadows tomorrow. his cpac speech will be his first public appearance since election night. overshadowing that is the bartender who secretly reported the 47% comments, finally explaining why he wanted that tape made public is an exclusive interview with our ed schultz. i don t think he has any clue what a regular american goes through on a daily basis. i don t think he has any idea what a single mom taking a bus to work, dropping the kid off at the daycare that she can barely afford, hopping on another bus. the day-in, day-out struggles of everyday americans, that guy has no idea. people could decide for themselves whether they agreed with him or not. i felt like it was my duty to
make sure that as many people heard it as possible. joining me now, sean spicer welcome from the rnc. as we all know and as we covered, that tape arguably made it a lot harder for mitt romney to win the election and reemerges as romney publicly reemerges to a crowd. the guy behind this, scott prouty, he s a regular guy, an independent. he s not tied to any political organization. in your estimation from the rnc s standpoint, how much do the comments continue to haunt romney and the party? well, there s no question, they re not helpful. i mean, governor romney said so much. part of the reason that we re moving forward and, again, i think what we can t do is not learn lessons from what happened in november. not only in the presidential election but throughout the entire party. that s what we ve been focused on doing, ha do we need to do better in unquestionably comment like that don t help us. we have been focused on trying
the election wasn t even that close. i think he needs to take personal responsibility for his campaign. take responsibility for the words he said. and move forward. does mitt romney move forward if he owns it, recognizes that was the achilles heel of his campaign, recognize where he screwed up? and tries to get people, like a scott prouty who says he s an independent, doesn t have a political bent. wasn t out to tank his campaign but felt the words needed to be shared. i hardly think he s a political expert or analyst. i don t think mitt romney needs to take advice from him. but to that point that s the guy who would elect mitt romney. who knows. this is a guy who clearly wanted to put himself into the mix or he would have released this and gone away. he wants his opinions out there. good for him. come on. mitt romney can take advice from other folks. he didn t come out the tape came out. he did not show up until last night.
theory. we have to stop judging conservatives on a sliding scale of conservativeness. who is getting a right on the issues, who is too conservative, who is too moderate. instead we need to judge our leaders and our candidates on a vertical scale of effectiveness. are they effective communicators. do they put us in a good light. chris christie absolutely does. whatever sorts of hits and misses on the horizontal sliding scale of conservatism, that has to be put aside. he s a really good spokesperson for the gop. someone like christie does have a future, meanwhile we re getting people from the past, mitt romney reemerging, showcasing the man behind the 47% tape, a bartender from florida who was with our ed schultz last night talking about why he wanted to get this tape out and what he has to say about romney now. take a listen. i think the guy needs to respect the will of the voters.