David Gergen actually said...

"I do think, when you start using the word cocaine, as Mark Penn did, it does suggest it, and I think it can have some reverberations."

"Not at all, because, in both parties now, we have very, very close races. And, naturally, you're going to go in this direction."

"I think that's unfair to the people involved."

"I don't think they're playing the race card at all."