Like President Bush, McCain favors extending arms control deals with Russia, opening strategic nuclear talks with China and pressing on multiple fronts to limit the spread of nuclear arms technologies. He emphasized, "we must continue to deploy a safe and reliable Nuclear deterrent." McCain also proposed reviving a treaty banning the testing of nuclear weapons, which the Senate rejected during the Clinton administration and which the Bush White House did not attempt to resurrect. He also stated that he would "cancel all further work" on development of a new earth-penetrating nuclear weapon that the Bush administration had proposed but abandoned more than two years ago. The senator did not explicitly say whether he would support reviving any element of nuclear arms production. "I would only support the development of any new type of nuclear weapons that is absolutely essential for the viability of our deterrent, that results in making possible further decreases in the size of our nuclear arsenal and furthers our global nuclear security goals," McCain said.
American's anti Bush sentiment can essentially cause McCain the presidential vote. Although McCain and Bush have similar republican ideologies, their ways of approaching the problem is different. But is different approaches enough? Are Americans tired of having a republican in office?
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