David Gergen actually said...

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

"The public will now blame the House Republicans for breaking down -- this breakdown in Washington and that the House Republicans are being held hostage by the Tea Party."

"Every time you go after somebody on an issue that you're vulnerable you're self on, it basically invites the media to replay all of the ways in which you're weak or you've been a flip-flopper."

"You want a man of this temperament in the oval office, a man who is going to be the difference between war and peace. That's a legitimate question."