Earlier this month Texas Governor Rick Perry helped push a so-called RINO — Republican In Name Only — off the congressional ticket in New York. Only to see the Conservative Party candidate he backed lose to a Democrat. But that kind of “Us vs. Them” — “True Republican vs. Moderate” battle was invisible during the just completed Republican Governor’s Association meeting in Bastrop County.

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