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This is a tough game. You can't be intimidated. You can't be frightened. And as far as I'm concerned, the Tea Party can go straight to hell.

You know I have had Tea Party support.

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

I was Tea Party years before there was an official Tea Party.

The Tea Party movement went off on a more extreme agenda that I did not support at all, and was very frustrated by it, to the point that not only did I change parties, I decided to do something about it and run for Congress.

And my principles go right in line with the Tea Party.

I have never been a member of a Tea Party.

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

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