A couple of players in the filibuster fight have been rumored to have presidential ambitions in 2008, Bill Frist and John McCain. They've both seen their chances of making it through the primaries to become the Repupublican nominee vanish.
For Bill Frist, he needed to score some sort of a victory on this issue. His leadership in the Senate has not exactly been what most of us expected of him. By having many moderate RINO's leave the fold of the party and strike a compromise, Frist sees his leadership compromised even further. He's fairly young, so if he wants to be President, he'll need time to repair the damage that has been done. He may need to wait until 2012 or 2016.
As for John McCain, he doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of making it out of the primaries. Primary voters are much more partisan than general election voters, and McCain is making a career out of pissing off party loyalists. Does he have himself position well in front of the general electorate? Possibly. But if the party won't nominate you, it doesn't matter.
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