I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I keep Reagan's 11th Commandment that I don't run down other Republicans.
All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress.
I left the Democratic Party basically on issues of national security during the end of the Vietnam War.
I am very much a Republican.
I sometimes think that I didn't leave the Republican Party, as much as it left me.
I have been a Republican since 1966.
If Republicans want to bring these things up for a vote, I'm letting them know where I stand.
I didn't want to engage in a campaign where I was defending myself on those issues at every turn, so I just decided that I'd switch and run as a Republican.
I am still a Republican. I have not changed that.
I haven't left the Republican Party. It left me.