[rightwing2]

Wow. President Bush is wrong on this one, IMHO.

Maybe not. Bush needs to pressure Lott from behind the scenes to allow Lott to save face. If he were to say Lott needs to resign that would make Lott look worse than he deserves. Lott's not a racist, but his image is shot and its time for him to go, but he needs to be eased out and promised a plum committee chairmanship as a consolation prize.

[ewing]

Excatly, this is all about saving face and how things will go down.

I'm not sure Lott has earned the kid gloves treatment, but Rove wants to limit the political damage.