David Gergen actually said...

"John McCain is still running a very competitive race."

"But it makes his campaign much harder. He's got a harder hill to climb. He needs to move on now, and get organized. John McCain can spend 100 percent of his time --"

"I think he now needs to engage in serious conversation within his own team and with her about whether this is a workable idea or not. I think he needs her a lot more now than he did six weeks ago."

"It's unusually intense, Anderson. And it does raise the question of why, because, you know, often, when you're in the White House in this situation, if you don't say anything at all, you just sort of ..."