What our family has done is participate in the farm programs. And so the farm programs I think essentially almost every farmer in South Dakota has participated in those, and they haven't been bailouts, they have been programs that the United States has put forward for farmers to participate in.

A lot of people have tried to put labels on me, but right now I'm focused on being Kristi Noem and getting my message out to South Dakotans.

I think everyday people on the street who have never been affiliated with the tea party movement are alarmed with the spending and the debt that we have.

Now make no mistake, I think we need a strong dose of fiscal conservatism in Washington, D.C.

We have to get government out of the job of picking winners and losers. That's what they've been doing the last year and a half, getting in the way of businesses that are trying to reinvest to get our economy back on its feet.

We need to simplify our tax code. We need to make sure that it's not too cumbersome for people to be able to comply with. And that they don't end up spending more money trying to file their taxes than they do actually paying in.

We must stop spending money that we just don't have. Historic debt leads to historic tax increases, which stifle job growth.