Blame Republicans’ defeat on the Tea Party

Asians have always been ahead of the US in education, technology etc. I do not think that has anything to do with health care. If you take that stance, than unions would have the top of line folks working in them. The Asian difference is education. And to some extent the fact that Asians are more family oriented and involved with their kids more than the US. I am not saying that Americans are not involved with their kids, I am saying that Asians are involved with their kids in regards to education, manners, respect etc. I lived in Asia and I know that the folks I came in contact with raised children that were happy, respectful and incredibly well behaved. They also hornored their elderly. They saw their elderly as folks who had a lot to pass on to their kids and them. The respect for the elderly in Asia was amazing. I am not surprised we have webmasters that stink here. We cannot even get our kids up to par with reading, math and spelling. Just watch a national Spelling Bee on tv and see who wins. Very rarely is it an American. Truth is that we have a very bad work ethic here. Talk to anybody who has a business and wants to hire. The applicants come in with demands about what they will do and will not do. It is not that simplistic. Just like education here in the US is not failing for one reason. Lots of reasons. But the problem is that the left thinks they can spend their way out of any problem. History proves that does not work. The War on Poverty is a good example that injecting more money into that program failed. It is about good programs, which the govt has no clue how to run.

Geeze Earthling, whats the deal with your Sunday paper not being delivered? I am sure that is getting old for you. Sounds like cost cutting has affected delivery also. If the price for the folks who deliver has been decreased, chances are you are either getting a lot of turnovers with drivers, or just folks who are not so into what they are doing. This website screams low budget. If it is this bad for the readers, can you imagine how bad it is for the folks who work at the CM. Not Good management. Too bad we do not have another newspaper here in Concord. Maybe that will happen down the road. When your the only game in town, you really do not have to have high standards. Folks read a newspaper for a lot of reasons, and the CM has had the luxury of offering a newspaper that many folks feel is not up to par. Only took me 7 tries to get on this morning.

Web Sites cost a lot. You can expect snags, but a lot of snags is not a good sign. The site is not being updated. We see old stories. I finally figured out how to log on but it takes tricks. Very frustrating. I have called and E mailed several times. Don't bother. You will get no help. Sometimes when you go with the lowest bid, you get a bad product.

Boy does this website stink. We are stuck commenting on stale columns. Very Boring. Does the Monitor think this is an improvement?

Greed at this point for most fair minded thinking folks needs to be put in perspective. We have the worker bees and the non worker bees. The worker bees provide for the folks who do not work. At some point the worker bees decide that working is not all it is cracked up to be. Especially when they see their paychecks get smaller and smaller. So they decide to become nonworker bees. The only problemo with that is we run out of money because more worker bees stop working. So at that point we have no revenue stream. Then we have a society that is so dependent on a govt that is broke, the govt starts to cut off the benies and the folks revolt. At that point folks we are Greece. I do believe we are headed for another 4 years of disaster. It is obvious the left wants to push more spending. Business will face more taxes and mandates from the EPA. That means all business small and big. And guess who will suffer the most? Not the rich, middle class and low income. You pay a price for dependency. And you encourage folks to keep asking for more.

Everyone guess where the worst president ever is today: In NY or NJ helping out with Hurricane Damage, No. Working with members of congress to prevent going over the fiscal cliff, No. Working with businesspersons to get people back to work, No. He is at the golf course, what a piece of work: http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-plays-golf_662260.html So because Obama is a self centered, egotistical, lazy stuffed shirt all democrats must be self centered, egotistical, lazy stuffed shirts.

Wrong Dan. Perhaps the radical teacher's union thinks Obama is a moderate but he is not. Obama's constant attack ads on medicare, and the free stuff handouts is tough to beat. It is hard to beat Santa Claus. The Obama get out the vote campaign was top notch. I volunteered to worked for Romney but never got a e-mail back to say where and when I was needed. The Romney Orca data mining system was a big failure. On the Obama side the Obama campaign knew what their supporter's favorite TV show was and what their favorite music was. Dan if you are talking about big corporate involvement look at Google. Anyone who thinks that Google didn't play a big roll in Obama's victory is just fooling themselves. With all the stuff that Obama held back until after the election I can't wait to get my don't blame me I voted Romney bumper sticker.

I have to disagree somewhat with this column. Married women, those who are able to make a commitment and as one major journalist commented, those who: "think from the neck up" overwhelmingly voted for Romney. Yes, society is changing and there is a resurgence of "if it feels good, DO IT!" attitude in the sexual world. They want the rest of us to pay for their act of passion. Personally, I have NO issue with contraception being paid for by insurance companies and I have NO issue with a woman having a abortion if she so chooses, if she is willing to live with that. The war on women was carefully orchestrated by Obama from the moment he made the announcement about contraception. It speaks volumes about the man and his ethics. He fooled millions of sexually active women who want something for nothing. But this election was about many things beyond a woman's body. Many factors impacted the election from Hurricane Sandy to Romney's refusal to rebut faux ads about his time at Bain to his refusal to attack Obama as he was being attacked, viciously. It also speaks to greater society which has lost respect for ambition, drive, self achievement, individual accomplishment, etc and has exchanged that for "what's can government do for me". It has never been clearer that JFK would be a right winger today. Kennedy said: "ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." We are now a culture of "ask not what you can do for yourselves, ask what government can do for you". I spoke with four Hispanic folks this week. Two voted for Romney and two voted for Obama. All four said it had NOTHING to do with immigration policy and that they came here legally and find it unfair that others cheat and might get amnesty. The two who voted for Obama did say that they can now "get free health care". That says a lot.

Huntsman is pro life, pro Right to Work, and a rich Mormon. The Obama attack ads would only have to have Romenys name edited to Huntsman. Running as a Republican, with the same party platform, Dan apparently believes that team Obama would have changed their strategy. Dan may have voted for Huntsman. I would have. Would the swing states?? Doubtful.

Great column Dan ! AROOOOOOOOOGAAAAAAAAAA !!!!! That is the sound some of the conservatives we know are making as they hit the Klaxon and dive for deep water!

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." Hard to do when you get a steel needle pushed through your skull at 8 months and your brain sucked out. And although there is some truth to your column, I will point out that Scott Brown, a true moderate was voted out in favor of a true far left loon.