TEMPLE-RASTON: Well, this is the idea behind the rope-a-dope strategy that most of us in Washington thought the Bush administration was going to continue, that things couldn't get any worse for Alberto Gonzales and they assumed that if he just kept taking the punches they could move forward.

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But I would tell Bush that all he has to do is to stay nice and loose, working Gore in a rope-a-dope sort of way, mocking him lightly, and wait for one of those openings that can produce a fatal sound-bite -- something along the lines of Lloyd Bentsen's line in 1988: "I knew John Kennedy, and you're no John Kennedy!"

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