Whatever the agendas (of all involved), there would be little downside to Bush just issuing the pardon.
It would certainly do a lot, toward rebuilding Republican unity. That alone, given how vague and questionable the “facts” in the cases are — justifies him just doing it.
As it stands, it’s starting to look like a vandetta, by someone.
So your argument is that President Bush should pardon Ramos and Compean just to make (some) people happy? And you think you stand in judgment of him, how laughable. In case you haven’t noticed, President Bush does what he thinks is right not what is “popular” or would win him favors with the iPod or disgruntled crowd.