David Gergen actually said...

"But I have to tell you, from a public -- larger public point of view, I think it's going to be seen as just one more desperate effort to say -- to do whatever it takes to try to bring this over."

"If you look at the undecideds now in the race, they tend to look a little bit more like Obama voters than McCain voters."

"I think John McCain ought to be about big ideas about the future, and not about this kind of stuff."

"I think most people will respect him for going to see a very seriously ill grandmother who has meant so much to him and his upbringing."