David Gergen actually said...

"John McCain had an opportunity to be on national television today along with Sarah Palin and make their principal arguments."

"Next week is called the week for closing argument. And they are going to -- they have very carefully laid out a plan in their own heads about advertising, and other things, to make their closing argum..."

"Well, Anderson, coming to Washington today I found the Democratic and Republican insiders universally believe that this campaign is slipping away from John McCain, that he only has three or four days ..."

"The interesting comparison, and I know people don't like to hear about foreign countries very much but there was in France, Sarkozy was running as the nominee of a very, very unpopular incumbent party..."