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I'm so Republican, my first name starts with 'R.' I'm so right-wing - well, Randy Weber. You do the math.

You can call me an Eisenhower Republican. There is a gigantic gulf between an Eisenhower Republican and the kind of fringe brand of Republicanism that is being so vocally promoted today.

You see, to me, it doesn't really matter if an elected official has a D or an R behind her name, or his name. I honestly don't give a damn about who belongs to either political party.

The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.

Everybody who is a Republican wants to call themselves conservative even if they don't necessarily vote that way.

I don't want to describe either Governor Mitt Romney or the Republicans as stupid, but I will say this - if you look at their platform, the 2012 platform, it looks like it's from another century and maybe even two. It looks like the platform of 1812.

For a label for me, 'conservative' is more appropriate than 'Republican.'

Is Romney a tea party candidate? I'd probably say that he's the least of the candidates running for president right now that would be considered a tea party candidate.

I believe in most of the things Republicans stand for.