David Gergen actually said...

"There's no question right now that this -- this really dark economic situation is now going to be -- is going to really -- is going to, I think, blot out a lot of this question about who -- the backin..."

"Yes. And what they have been doing, Anderson -- all campaigns stretch the truth to some degree, but I think Karl Rove was right. This has gone well beyond the normal bounds."

"I think the focus is going -- is likely to start moving back now. And when we do that we're going to start paying a lot more attention to issues."

"No. I think we've established in previous conversations that the Republicans would much more rather make this about personalities."