My name is Karen. I’m a working wife and mother of two boys. We live in Upstate, New York.
While I try to follow the news of the day, there may be times I go off on a tangent.
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Hi Karen,
I listed your blog on our blogroll today at constitutionclub.org. Keep up the good work.
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Thanks, I’ll return the favor in just a moment.
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Tim D-Conservatives are far more generous than liberals. We give to charities and churches. They are much more efficient at helping people than the federal government will ever be. We believe in giving a hand up not a hand out. The welfare/entitlement system promotes dependency. I would prefer to be poor and independent than to be poor and dependent on the government. Look where the liberal good intentions of giving mortgages and credit to people who can’t afford it got us! Have you not watched the news lately? Where do you think this all started? Look up the Community Reinvestment Act. Read some of my old posts. Politicians and their cronies distorted and abused the capitalist system and now we all are paying the price. Your solution is just more taxation. How do you decide who is needy and who isn’t? Who makes that call? If you people have your way I will quit. I will get a job as a waitress and earn only what I need for the bare essentials of my family. I refuse to be a slave to you or anybody else.
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LonelyConservative,
I just found your site. Very cool. I agree 100% with your sentiments. Sarah Palin rocks, btw.
As for this “citizen of the world” malarkey, that is code word for socialism, which is code word for indentured servitude.
I just wish I could go back in time and speak with George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, lol. I’d love their take on the current state of affairs.
Oh yeah, and you can tell I am 100% confident in my beliefs because I use my real name on here. No need to hide behind a false one, or a nickname. That’s for the spineless.
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Thank you Scott! I think George Washington and Thomas Jefferson are rolling in their graves.
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Oh, BTW, I understand you going under the name “LonelyConservative”.:) It’s to protect your kids and your job.
I did that at first, but now I’m ready to rumble. My kids freedom depend on my actions today. Give me Liberty or give me Death.
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Good for you, Scott! I’ll reveal my identity when I get a book deal. LOL!
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Being poor is a state of mind, being broke is just a temporary inconvenience for anyone willing and able to work. There is already assistance for those unable to work thru SS, SSI Medicare and medicaid. Neighbors, churches, family and friends help those who need a hand up…But hand outs that become a way of life is not something I want to pay for.
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I just love this blog. A place for me to be…thanks for all the great entries.
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Bless you – I love your weblog — I tend to agree with you. I post your links on other blogs and also share through email.
Keep up the good work —
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Daneen and Jeanniejo –Thanks, sorry for the late reply. I must have must missed your comments. Usually they come right to my email!
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I found your site today and I just want to thank you. It is so nice to find someone else who is in their “right” mind. My only thought, I don’t think you will be “lonely” for long. There are too many of us out there who share your thoughts. I work among a large number of liberals and have to quite often avoid being drawn into their idiotic discussions/arguements for fear of completely losing my sanity. You cannot have a discussion with these people without them turning it into an all out full blown heated arguement.
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I feel your pain. I live in Baltimore City, MD!!!!! The one party town and it’s the wrong party! It’s a living nightmare!
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What’s wrong with heated arguments?
Lately, it gives me a chance to weed out some people I thought were friends. I want people to tell me exactly what they feel. I always want them to expose themselves for what they are and what they stand for. I’m getting too old to play games and waste time. I have friends who are Dems, but they know exactly how I feel. I’m amazed they’ve let the far left hijack their party. I’m happy to say that some of them have begun fighting back. Some others have left the party.
Picking libs off is easier than shooting fish in a barrel. The truth will set you free.
This is war. Not a heated argument. I’m speaking literally, of course….but if and when push comes to shove, which it may, I’m ready for it.
Great site. I’ll come back often and spread the word. I think Breitbart’s link will help you, big time!
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Thanks!
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Stephanie, thanks! I hope you keep coming back. I work w/a few libs, too – they suffer from an extreme case of Bush Derangement Syndrome. I brought in headphones so I can tune it out!
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1st Dude – I also hope Obama succeeds, unfortunately, we now have undivided government. There is no opposition. I happen to be a realist. George Bush did many things that I disagree with but he is a good man. The only reason he “split this country in half” is people like Mr. Obama and members of the media were on a crusade against him.
As far as McCain and Palin, the loss is on John McCain. The fact that Palin couldn’t save him is irrelevant. Even without the media’s obnoxious treatment of her, he was doomed from the outset.
May I also offer you some personal advice – a typo here and there is normal but your really should check your spelling. If so, in the future your comments will be taken more seriously.
Anyhoo, regardless of our disagreements thanks for coming around!
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What a breath of fresh air after this weeks Obamafest. I find if difficult to believe that people are buying into this socialism. Where did this lack of understanding begin?
Educated individuals (?) believing that we are going to be better off? Than who? Mexico?
Our standard of living is going to plummet. I honestly hope Obama succeeds because
the alternative is not pleasant for us or our children..
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Jblack-I’m not convinced people bought into socialism. They didn’t hear about alot of it. He said he was going to lower taxes for 95% of Americans. The average American doesn’t take the time to research the issues. If they did, we may have seen a different result. Heck, we may have had different candidates in the general election. I hope Obama succeeds as long as he doesn’t succeed at turning us into a socialist country. In that case, the freedom and liberty we love will be lost. Thanks for visiting!
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Thanks for posting the videos of Sean Hannity’s interview of Rush Limbaugh–that’s how I found your site. I wish I was a lonely conservative. I’m more of a depressed conservative–I fight despair daily when I learn what a government that’s allegedly for the people, etc., is doing to its people. There is no question in my mind that we’re headed for socialism and have been for the last 70 years or so. Rush has said that if our government passes national healthcare, it’s over. If the people oppose nat’l healthcare with all the energy and verve which defeated Hillary healthcare and the immigration amnesty bill, then the USA will hold off socialism a little longer. But the day will come when we’ll all live in the once-great United States in full-fledged socialism, and there’ll be no turning back.
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Nancy, I’ve had some moments of despair myself. How the heck am I supposed to teach my children about freedom and liberty when we’re living in a socialist nation? See Daneen’s comment in my earlier post about the lemmings. Hopefully people will wake up before it’s too late.
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You’re teaching your children to be Klansmen, racists, and bigots. A black man that speaks well is a criminal,only to a racist like you.Go to Stormfront the Nazi site. They agree with you 100%. You could go to Gretawire and post. They put up jokes about killing the President EVERY DAMN DAY. I hope Secret Service keeps a GOOD EYE on Glenn “The Traitor” Beck’s recruit a traitor site.YOU AREA TRAITOR. YOU ARE COMMITTING TREASON.
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As far as McCain and Palin, the loss is on John McCain. The fact that Palin couldn’t save him is irrelevant. Even without the media’s obnoxious treatment of her, he was doomed from the outset.
You have got to be kidding.You are a joke. Before the President ran for his current office ,for good measure Sean Klannity did a story on his minister”just in case “.Palin was hidden from the media. Palin is anti-woman, anti-Semitic, anti-Gay, anti-Hispanic, and anti-Black.Now white racist like yourself are starting rumors and lies. Socialism and Communism is better than the damn racism we had to live under. RepubliKlans are cowards. Mention racism and you mention a fake ideal like reverse racism. They could have used you in Germany as a Holocaust denier.Blacks are 12% of the population and white racist like yourselves are showing the world how dumb you are. The new N-word in Socialist and Communist. You’re trying to get him shot,and you know it !
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Sorry about that nutcase above me . I apologize for them since they apparently don’t have the intellect to do so themselves . I admire you and hope my daughters grow up to have that constitutional fire that you possess . You are admired here in the Buckeye state .
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Robert, thanks for your kind words. About the nutcase, I could have deleted the comments but thought I’d leave them up. These people’s own comments say more about them than anything you or I could say!
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I am a conservative Catholic and am also a fiscal and social conservative. My grandmother came to the USA legally and no one in my family ever received welfare, WIC or any of the other entitlements lazy, abusers of the system receive. Oh, and yes , I have several advanced degrees and my family is Latino and we all speak English as well!!! English should be the official language of the USA and I don’t want illegal aliens here destroying my country and living off of me and others who get up to go to work ( I get up at 5:30). Although the Catholic church supports these illegal aliens I don’t and don’t donate to any appeals regarding this. There are only 2 Abrahamic faiths and those are the standards by which which we live in this country…not Socialist , sharia law!!! I am also vegan. Keep up the good work!
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I found you by accident and appreciate your thoughts. You mentioned you have statist friends with whom you disagree, and try to keep a cordial relationship with them. I’m seventy-one now and have to say I don’t have any statist friends anymore. If I couldn’t change their minds, I dropped them as friends.
In just a few comments above addressed to you, you can see the hatred of the statists (by whom I mean international socialists or Communists, national socialists or Nazis, Liberals, Progressives, Greens, Democrats, “moderate” Republicans, ad infinitum). I think we’ll experience a great deal of violence before the statists are finally defeated and our original republican form of constitutional government restored to us.
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Don and AAG – thanks to both of you.
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Karen. Don’t let the libs get you down. There is a momentum building out across our great country and it is only going to get larger. Quietly but forcefully people are getting fed up and joining forces in the forum of Tea Parties. There have been large ones and small ones and they were the early, relatively unpublicized ones (FOXNEWS excepted,as always). April 15th, tax day, is going to be the truly big day for these events which are being organized in cities all across the USA. If you want to know more about them, I would suggest going to Glenn Beck’s site on FOXNEWS as he is very interested in these events and plans to be at the one at The Alamo in Texas that day. Today, Rush Limbaugh told a caller about these Tea Parties and said that they are “huge”, “catching on” and getting SO big that some cities are trying to figure out what to do. Read the Drudge Report online, listen to Dick Morris on FOXNEWS and subscribe to his free online newsletter (I think he is the smartest man in politics in terms of analysis and understanding of it, based on years of involvement). Listen to Rush who is not just entertaining but courteous to all his callers and incredibly effective at making sense of what appears to be going on vs. what really is going on. I have been listening since 1993 and try never to miss him. He kept me sane and balanced during the Clinton years and he is keeping me sane now. If you can connect, mentally, with sensible and knowledgeable conservatives and be reassured that there really is a resurgence from our side, you will feel less alone and more hopeful, I think. I know I do. And, whatever you do, avoid the mainstream media in every form as they do one thing well: they lie. The 2010 midterms will be a landslide and then we will move onward to 1/20/2012 when we throw Obama O U T forever. Best, Susan
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Murray, capitalism is the only system that provides incentive. Why did the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China give up on pure Marxism ? Communists are lazy, and the only way they get things done is by pointing a gun at a workers head. Without profit, you remove the incentive to work, study, discover, think, write, play etc…
Socialism is watered down communism. Higher income taxes go towards social programs etc… The only problem is that governments are not efficient in delivering public social programs, and a lot of times tax dollars disappear through corruption.
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I’m a n00bie here…..but will be stopping by on a regular basis.
Don’t Tread On Me!
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A friend sent me an email referring to this site……now that I’ve been here, I can see myself hanging around and antoginizing some folks!!
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I’m glad I found your site, Lonely! I have to say I’m more like the “depressed conservative” above, or at least I was. The tea parties and other local groups are serving to buoy my spirits. I have hope for my country again. You can certainly tell the posters who have participated in kool-aid drinking — it tends to make them mean-spirited and abusive to anyone not drinking along with them! I’ll come back to visit!
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Hi Robin, I’m glad you found it, too. It can get depressing, I know. I try to keep a sense of humor about the whole thing. And yes, the tea parties were inspiring, weren’t they? I hope you come back! You, too, DY.
Sam’s here all the time now:-)
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Thanks for coming by, Sandy. I’ll be sure to check out you site!
But I won’t be rooting for the Saints! Sorry….Eagles fan.
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Hi Karen!
Yes indeed, it’s hard to be conservative in a blue state like NY! Nice to “meet” you–I’ve read your stuff a lot as it makes its way around the net! Keep up the good work!
Best,
The Dame;)
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Thanks, Dame! At least since I started this site I’ve been able to communicate with other conservatives:-)
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I notice one of the websites you say you like is conservative cotton i ordered from them over a month ago and never received the items and cant get them to answer any emails do you know anything about them? thanks
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Let me see if I can find anything out. Thank you for letting me know. If they’re scamming I’ll definitely take down the link.
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I don’t know how you find the time to keep us all happy and informed, but I am really so grateful you keep doing it. It’s critically important that conservatives DON’T feel isolated and a bit crazy—it always helps to check in and see what you’ve got up, and what other conservatives (and even the occasional liberal) have to say.
THANKS, KAREN!!
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I’m severely sleep deprived!
Thank you, Daneen!
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Nice to find another mom in a conservative hostile place. My lonely place is London, so I have some anti-Americanism to contend with as well. I’m sleep deprived too. Just found you through your CIA investigations post and linked. I’m going to see what else you have I can swipe later tonight. Since you’ve been at this longer, best advice on staving off the depression? Cheers.
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Greetings from the Peoples Republic of the Adirondacks.
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I’ll be there next month for a work conference. What a beautiful area, if only the libs didn’t ruin it as a great place to work and raise a family.
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If anyone believes what Mr. Ottawa, Canada has written I have some lake front property in Arizona I want to sell them. SOCIALIZED MEDICINE ALWAYS FAILS, EVERY WHERE. Look at Greece and all of Europe. Check out “The Ugly truth about Canadian Health care” by David Gratzer or “Five Myths of Socialized Medicine” by Jim Goodman, these can be found on the internet.
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Lonely Conservative, thank you for what you do.
I am a retired wife, mother, and grandmother who is living in the bluest of the blue, Connecticut. Originally, I am from upstate NY (the Finger Lakes area) and my daughter and her children are still there.
You should be very proud of your site. As a TPP organizer I am in the process of learning blogging and building a shared blog site with other TPPers. When it is up and running I will try to share.
Our state is run by a super majority in the State’s General Assembly and last year was quite an eye-opener for a novice to politics. Many of the laws passed are not only dangerous to citizens, but most of them are financially destructive especially to business. Unfortunately, our citizens are quite left-leaning as well…so, you know, things are either never going to change in CT or it will take decades to see any kind of balance come back. In the meantime, I entertain myself with attempting to bring facts to the people in the event they are willing to discover the error of their ways.
Red Lady/ Pomfret Center, CT
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Thanks, RL. Best of luck.
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love this blog. I too am a lonely conservative in NY…WNY for me.
keep up the great work!!
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Thanks, Bridgette!
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It is important that the socialist myths do not go unanswered. Regarding Mr.Ottowa Canada: Socialized medicine ALWAYS FAILS EVERYWHERE, look at Europe. Most Canadians, like Europeans, assume that government promises of health care mean HIGH QUALITY MEDICAL TREATMENT, which is not what happens. Most people in Canada have never been seriously ill and have no idea what high quality health care is like.
In 2 Feb. 2010 Newfoundland’s Premier, Danny Williams, flew to the US for heart surgery rather than wait to die in Canada. He was only the most famous of many to come here.
The facts are that Canada’s health care system involves excessively long waiting periods, that Canadian politicians are always promising to fix. Treatment is problematic.
As far as Canada being a “free” country, you can literally be put into prison for saying things that in the USA would be considered nothing worse than controversial.
No, Mr. Canada, just because you get to vote every few years to choose whom your supreme dictators will be it does not make you free.
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