"You ought to be more than sorry; you ought to be gone" should be Bush's response. He's missing a great opportunity here to rebuke the excesses of his own party, even if in this case the excess may only be idiocy, not racism. He needs to put a bright line between himself and Lott, so that when the Dems bring this up in 2004 (any doubt this will be a major campaign theme?) Bush is clearly on the moral high ground.