David Gergen actually said...

"If he had actually won the Democratic nomination and this story had broken, he would have basically blown the Democrats' chance of getting the White House."

"He owes it to the party to move swiftly to put out every fact that's there, to get this paternity test done, to get all of this resolved so that this doesn't linger and hang over the campaign."

"This story is going to have lots of legs and keep marching along and chase him along."

"This is one of the threshold questions that when you run for high public office, you have to face."