David Gergen actually said...

"Absolutely. Yes, their fear was that Mitt Romney would come storming into Iowa, win big, and then go into New Hampshire and basically shut it down."

"I think clearly that if he came in behind Paul and Santorum, even if it were bunched and clustered, I think he would be hurt."

"I think it's important for him to sort of start breaking out and see if he can get above this lid of 25 percent that he's running into in various places."

"I don't think just coming in second is -- it's going to look like, you know, he lost the expectations game."