[Impy]

I thought Pete Wilson was decent?

[Political Junkie Too]

Wilson declared in a debate with Kathleen Brown in 1994 that he would serve out his term if reelected as governor, and then a few months later flew to New York City for a photo op announcing his candidacy for President in front of the Statue of Liberty.

-PJ

[fieldmarshaldj]

Big RINO elitist phony. He also all but gave away the last GOP-held Senate seat, too. He was really lusting after the Presidency.

Contrast that to George Deukmejian, the last decent Governor. He was on GHW Bush’s list to be VP in 1988 (perhaps at Reagan’s suggestion), but because he had a leftist Democrat in the Lt Governor’s office, Leo McCarthy, he didn’t want to risk placing the state in the hands of him and Willie Brown. Wilson would’ve dropped the job like a ton of bricks had it been him.

[ansel12]

I thought Pete Wilson was decent?

You may have caught him on an immigration related issue, on immigration Wilson was oddly and uncharacteristically, tough, other than that he was an unlikable, oily, rino/libertarian type, who was very much out to block conservatism.