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In many respects, I guess I would say I was into Tea Party before there was a Tea Party.

So, a lot of my supporters back home are members of the Tea Party.

You know I have had Tea Party support.

Well, look, I'm as Tea Party as it gets.

My political views have since I was a kid someway or another reflected the concerns of Tea Party movement.

Let me tell you what the Tea Party stands for. It stands for the fact that we are taxed enough already.

So I'm a pretty conservative fellow, but not conservative enough for the Tea Party.

At root, the Tea Party is nothing more than a them-versus-us thing.

The Tea Party is simply a loose description of local activism driven by Americans who want smaller government and more self-reliance. That sounds like what the Founding Fathers had in mind, does it not?