Don't Think of A RINO: How Battleground Texas is the New Scare Word for Texas GOP

In George Lakoff's New York Times Bestseller "Don't Think of an Elephant" the Berkeley cognitive linguist said Democrats have to change the "frame" of the dialogue in order to persuade voters' and motivate them to the polls -- the GOP he said, had run circles around Democrats in that department.

The GOP's near total political domination of Texas matched with low turnout allowed a dedicated group of right wing and Tea Party activists to turn their sights on the moderate wing of their party, dubbed RINOs (Republicans In Name Only). Several election cycles of comparing scorecards and trying to out right-flank each other in the Primaries with increasingly harsh rhetoric, the Texas Republican Party has...

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