Last month the NHTSA said that “based on the available data, NHTSA does not believe that Chevy Volts or other electric vehicles pose a greater risk of fire than gasoline-powered vehicles.”

1) The national economy isn’t improving. Housing is still underwater and unemployment is understated by a factor of about three. The stock market has absolutely no bearing on what’s happening on Main Street. It is approaching three-quarters institutional investors.

2) Your opinion. You have nothing but your liberal beliefs to tell you that deficit spending is necessary.

3) Cute…but we shouldn’t default on our bonds whether we want to or not.

4) Santorum may think the government belongs in the bedroom but Santorum isn’t the entirety of the Republican Party.

5)  See point 4.

6) More and more scientists are looking at the facts and deciding that MMGW is untrue. According to Pew 49 percent of us believe it is natural or not due to man made causes while only 41 percent believe it is man made. Sorry VP. looks like your opinion is wrong on this one.

7) Who doesn’t care about the condition of the environment? Stupid statement. As covered in point 6, Americans don’t blame man for environmental problems with the atmosphere.
Yes, Obozo is personally well liked but politically he is still under 50 percent and as gasoline prices hit four or five dollars a gallon this summer, I’m guessing his political likes will drop back below 40 percent.

9) Yes, Obozo professes to be a Christian (his problem) and only Orly Taitz still believes he was born in Kenya. As for being a socialist, he does keep showing his love for European style socialism and government.

10) Supporting charter schools doesn’t make you a foe of public education. In fact, last I checked charter schools are public schools. As far as tax credits for private school tuition are concerned. Firstly, students attending private schools save public schools the cost of educating them and, secondly private schools are popular among the minorities in the big eastern cities because they provide kids with a better education than they get in the public schools.

11) Yep, absolutely true but Americans also believe unequivocally that we should reduce the size of the federal government and the federal workforce. So, basically Americans are torn on the issue, they believe that someone else should pay the taxes and that taxes shouldn’t be raised to fund federal overspending.

12) We have a 100 year plus supply of natural gas and a 100 year supply of domestic oil (when you count Canadian “fracked” oil and ANWR and this doesn’t include the oil in the upper mid-west where estimnates go as high as a 100 year supply.) So, to say the supply is limited is just a bit disingenuous. What it does say is we have 100 years to develop an electric car that, unlike the Obozo funded Volt, doesn’t self-immolate and goes more than 35 miles on a charge.

Yes, we have problems that need to be addressed chief among them the economy and unemployment. But I notice you conveniently omitted those problems. Probably because Obozo, Harry Greed and Nancy Pelousy have no solutions for them. It’s time that we gave someone else a chance rather than the inept Jerk-in-Chief.

Nope, I just gave two examples. I could have also cited 2010, but that was due less to any notable Republican strategy than disgust with BO policies.

What is it with liberals where someone gives an example or two and you guys instantly jump to this losing strategy of thinking an example or two is meant as an exhaustive survey of the issue?

1) The national economy is rapidly improving, unemployment is dropping, the stock market has recovered it lost value.
2) Deficit spending (short term) is necessary for it to continue to improve
3) The US is not Greece, and we only default on our bonds if we decide to.
4) Americans don’t want government in our bedrooms
5) Americans (98%) actually think birth control is a good idea
6) The earth is warming due to fossil fuel emissions, and most Americans agree
7) Most Americans care about the condition of the environment Obama is well liked by the American public
9) He is not a secret Muslim, was born in the US, and is not a socialist
10) Most Americans support public education
11) Most Americans are not rich, and support taxing rich people at higher rates
12) Fossil fuels are called that for a reason. (Hint, supply is limited).

There are actual problems that need to be addressed. Global competitiveness, improving education outcomes, getting people to save more for retirement and emergencies, transportation, energy, housing market recovery, manufacturing, preventing another financial meltdown…..

Now if Republicans accepted the above as reality, and focused on actual problems, they could construct a conservative leaning politics that responds. This would lead them to nominate someone with workable solutions to real problems that don’t necessarily mean top down government, but that sometimes do mean that. In other words, pragmatism over ideology.