[aaronblohowiak]

>I can only assume the rest of the RNC is going along with it because they are stupid or cowards

They are not stupid; they are self-interested.

With gerrymandering making many seats stable in terms of which party will win, the competition then comes from within the party; moderate GOPs face competition from the far right. If they don't tow the line, they risk losing their power. This is the end-game of gerrymandering playing out.

Rubio is the coward of the hour: http://www.nationaljournal.com/daily/what-happened-to-marco-...

[shrikant]

OT, but I've been seeing this around a lot lately.

It's "toe the line", and not "tow the line": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toe_the_line

[pydave]

Think this: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZhvlxGTfYXo/TYLtUko9fwI/AAAAAAAAA2... -- toe on a line is easy to imagine.

Instead of this: http://www.glossophilia.org/wp-content/uploads/towline.jpg -- towing an oceanliner? Does that make any sense?

[joe5150]

It truly does not matter.

[daned]

Words matter. source: George Carlin

[joe5150]

Oy vey. I don't know what George Carlin has to say on the subject of idiomatic constructions in English, but if we lived in a world where phrases could only be used in the most literal understandings of the literal definitions of their component words, idioms like "toe the line" wouldn't exist in the first place. The handy thing about it being an idiom is that it works even when the literal meaning, the context, and the history are forgotten. The difference between "toe" and "tow" is nil in terms of how it affects the meaning of the phrase, since the meaning of the phrase is not derived from adding together the meanings of the words.