Yes, he actually said that

Village Idiot David Broder:

“McCain benefits from a long-established reputation as a man who says what he believes,” writes Broder. “His shifts in position that have occurred in this campaign seem not to have damaged that aura. Obama is much newer to most voters, less familiar and more dependent on the impressions he is only now creating.”

Broder asserts this as if it were some naturally occuring phenomenon, not the result of a lazy press corps hopelessly in love with Teflon John McCain. C&L has more of Broder's inane ravings.