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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.

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

You know I have had Tea Party support.

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

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

It was widespread that the politics of Tea Party people would be foreign to Ronald Reagan and they would be seen by him as frivolous and uninformed.

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

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

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