Is he trying to be like Kennedy - offically on record as being against 7 forms of electric generation?
coal
gas
oil
nuke
hydro/wave
wind
solar
Are there any more? Against everything all the time with no real solution.
But of course, Kerry and the RATs don't name an alternative. For each NIMBY vote received in Nevada, there is a potential IMBY scare scenario opened up again in the 31 states now stuck with no solution.
Exactly what are we to do with the nuclear waste?
President Bush doesn't pander to parochial interests but instead considers the greater good. Isn't that a test of political character? It's easy to be against something that would hurt you politically. It takes a man to see something through despite the clear and obvious pain because he thinks its right.
A slight correction is needed here. That should read, "...the state’s RINO governor, Kenny Guinn..."
Clinton was able to use the Yucca Mountain issue to do better than average in Nevada, and due to Perot's presence on the ballot was able to win two narrow pluralities there in 1992 and 1996. Gore tried to do the same in 2000, but that time no one was taking tens of thousands of votes away from Bush and Bush won the state 49.5% to 46.0% even though Bush didin't pander to anti-Yucca Nevadans and promised that the decision on the nuclear waste depository would be made based on "sound science" and not politics. If Kerry tries some anti-Yucca demagogery in 2004, I don't think it will go anywhere, since (i) the depository was already approved by both houses of Congress and signed by the President, and there's no way that a repeal of that law would be approved by both houses, and (ii) one of the Senators who voted in favor of the Yucca Mountain depository, both in the final vote and in several preliminary votes over the years, is no other than John Edwards.