Ed Schultz gets an interview with the man who secretly recorded Mitt Romney making his infamous 47% comments at a fundraiser during last year’s presidential campaign.

The Huffington Post reports the still unidentified man was a bartender at the event.

“When the bartender learned he would be working at Romney’s
fundraiser, his first thought was to bring his camera, in case he had a
chance to get a photo with the presidential candidate. Romney, of course, did not speak to any of the staff, bussers or
waiters. He was late to the event, and rushed out. He told his dinner
guests that the event was off the record, but never bothered to repeat
the admonition to the people working there.”

Michael Sullivan (R) claims he’s a “tested and trusted” leader with experience that makes him the best GOP candidate in the Republican U.S. Senate primary in Massachusetts.

But the Boston Globe finds that Sullivan’s newly launched website ­borrows heavily from the dormant site of Richard Tisei (R), the Republican who lost in his congressional bid last year.

Karl Rove is apparently still upset that Fox News called the presidential election too soon, the Washington Post reports.

“When asked about the papal conclave’s quest to rack up enough votes behind a successor to Pope Benedict XVI, Rove — inexplicably, un-self-awaredly — steered the discussion into the vicinity of the moment when he balked at calling the state of Ohio — and the whole presidential election — for Barack Obama back in November.”

Said Rove: “They do it the right way. They get to the final vote and the decision and then they let the smoke get it… Maybe there’s a message there for American media Maybe we better wait, rather than try to call it, let the election go to its final conclusion and let the results speak for themselves.”

“Every candidate was different. Each one of them there were obvious examples of candidates that I think frightened some women but they were the exception rather than the norm in the party. And you know all of those social issues are very, very heart felt by people. I understand that there are differences; there will just be. And I’m glad that in our party there we have room for all of them. I think that’s important too.”

— Laura Bush, quoted by CNN, on Republican candidates who ran in the 2012 elections.

Virginia Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling announced that he will not run for governor of Virginia as an independent, the Washington Post reports.

Steve Kornacki: “There are remarkably few recent examples of Senate incumbents losing in states where their party enjoys the kind of edge Republicans now have in Kentucky. And Judd figures to be a particularly ripe target for the GOP, given the very liberal views she’s already staked out. It would probably take a huge Democratic tide or an indictment of McConnell (or maybe both?) to propel her to victory in ’14. And that’s a lot to hope for.”

Stuart Rothenberg: “If Democrats are going to have any chance of netting 17 seats during the
2014 midterms — and taking back control of the House — they are going
to have to do a much better job in a handful of districts where their
recruiting fell far short in 2012.”