Apparently the 'conservative' "American" John McCain idolizes those effete effeminates across the Pond, according to Salon.com:
Sen. McCain keeps saying, "If France can produce 80 percent of its electricity with nuclear power, why can't we?" Wrong question, Senator. The right question is: Why would we? Energy efficiency and renewables are the key to affordable, carbon-free electricity. They should be a focus of national energy and climate policy. Not nukes.
Wrong question again, Joseph Romm. The REAL right questions are: Why does John McCain love France so much? Is it because he hates America? Perhaps he just can't stomach the freedom in freedom fries? Does John McCain want to make us all wear berets and black-and-white horizontally striped shirts? Is he going to make good, honest, American college students stop shotgunning Coors and make them sip Chablis? Worst of all, is he going to replace our beloved infomercials with MIMES?!?
It's a great article by Joseph Romm on nuclear power, by the way.