RLR: We're talking today with former Governor of California, Pete Wilson. Let's get right to the issue. During the current energy crisis in California, many in the liberal media have pointed their finger of blame at you, as the driving force behind de-regulation. How do you respond.

PW: I think it's unfair, Bob. I was only fulfilling a campaign pledge I had made to some loyal...and very lucrative...supporters. After all...de-regulation had already been tested years before with the Airline and Savings and Loan industries, and their was no reason to believe that it wouldn't yield the same results when applied to electricity. The goal was to reduce the cost to the consumer and provide stability to the power grid. The fact that it didn't work can hardly be blamed on me.

RLR: So, while accepting full credit for de-regulation, you vigorously deny any responsibility for it's failure.

PW: I think you'll find that to be one of the cornerstone principles of my entire political career. I'd like to add that this once again shows how out of touch the liberal media is with the ordinary citizen. While the media may be pointing the finger of blame, consumers of California are pointing a different finger altogether.

PW: Of course. I consider it a landmark critique on the subject.

RLR: On a different subject, you've taken a lot of heat from the anti-tobacco lobby over the years for your quiet yet steady obstruction of your state's anti-smoking program.

PW: Sometimes you have to do things that may not be popular with the public at-large, and when you do...you want as little scrutiny as you can get away with. It's all about misdirection; vocally supporting a cause, whether it be anti-smoking or the environment or education, while doing everything you can to sabotage it behind closed doors. It may not be reputable...or even legal...but you do what you have to in order to protect the constituency, whether that constituency is smokers or gun owners or Nevada casinos.

RLR: Of course your lasting legacy will be race relations. During your two terms your positions on immigration, crime, welfare, and affirmative action made you a poster boy for the "angry white male", while causing your detractors to label you a racist.

PW: I think that label is abhorrent.

RLR: So you find racism abhorrent.

PW: No, I find the label abhorrent. I don't consider myself a racist. Racism denotes an irrational hatred of your fellow man. If you look at the positions I took, there was nothing irrational about them. Each was calculated to achieve a political objective. It's all about demographics. I mean, let's face it...most minorities are not going to vote for a Republican. It would be tantamount to political suicide, like a Jew voting for Hitler. Conversely, the political survival of a Republican candidate depends, to a large extent, on that segment of the electorate which lives in fear and loathing of anyone or anything which they see as a threat to their way of life or their perception of their place atop the gene pool. A smart politician knows how to exploit these fears, without necessarily buying into them. So while many of my supporters may be racists, I myself have never done anything overtly racist.

RLR: You've never, for instance, burned a cross in a black man's lawn?

PW: Well, there was that time over at Ward Connerly's house...but that was just some of the boys having some fun. Hell, it was Ward's gas can, for Pete's sake.

RLR: I feel like our readers know Pete Wilson a lot better than they did before.

PW: I want to thank you for the opportunity.

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