Republican pollster Glen Bolger says the current GOP message on energy policy is a dog because it offers no support for alternative sources of power.

"The GOP counter message on cap and trade/energy got spanked by the Democrat message," writes Glen Bolger, a leading Republican strategist and pollster. Recent poll results from Public Opinion Strategy, which Bolger co-founded, and Greenberg, Quinlan and Rosner, found the public agrees with the Democrats on the energy bill by a significant margin.

"It's crystal clear that a GOP energy message, which does not include the need to expand and grow alternative fuels, is lacking a key component," Bolger wrote. "Every time over the past two years that I have tested a GOP message that doesn't include alternative energy, it is a stone-cold loser. Every time that GOP message includes an alternative energy component, it does significantly better. More oil, less taxes is not enough."