Posted on 03/15/2014 2:46:38 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
At this weekend’s state party convention at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport, a group of influential California Republicans has an odd request for delegates: help turn California blue.
“Around the globe, blue is identified with conservative, free market parties, while red is identified with social democratic parties,” points out Shawn Steel, a former chairman of the state party who now serves as its representative on the Republican National Committee. “It is why conservative-leaning Democrats in Congress were called ‘Blue Dogs.’ Everyone knew what it meant.”
Steel is among a group of Republicans that have introduced a resolution calling for the California Republican Party to adopt blue as its official color in branding materials. The informal coalition of “Republicans, Red No More” says that it’s time to conform to proper historical and international standards for political ideology, correct a 14-year-old mistake by the mainstream media and, in the process, confront “the idea of a hopelessly divided nation.”
The group has some high-profile backers, including two members of California’s congressional delegation. “Should the Republican Party choose its own principles and symbols, or should we let the national media do that for us?” asked Rep. Doug La Malfa, R- Richvale, in an email to delegates. “Well, the answer should be obvious.”
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Given the problems our nation faces, this always struck me as minor, but maybe we should try to change the color scheme. Labeling us as red and our opponents as blue is not historically accurate.
The switch in colors was, of course, intentional on the part of the Left Wing Media.
When I saw this article, I immediately thought of you and decided to post it. If I ever visit your home town, you owe me a drink.
; )
Good luck with that. It will never happen.
Blue is the color of Mary the Mother of Jesus. I do like blue, but I like red better and green would even be a better color. I had a hunter green car in the 90’s. They no longer have green on cars anymore. Pity.
( never mind. I guess the 'why' is obvious)
This should have never been allowed to happen, but the Leftist media decided to get even with George Bush and switch the colors. We need to correct every media grunt who uses the “red” designation for the GOP.
“When exactly did the networks let the dems slip out from under their “red” identification ...and why?”
It happened immediately after the 2000 elections. For years, the news networks gave the blue color to the incumbent and the red color to the challenger. In 2000, Republicans were the challengers for the White House. On election night, many noted that the nationwide vote was a near-tie, but the vast majority of state voted heavily for one party or the other. That’s how the labels began.
Long past time. Red’s Communist-Totalitarian. The color of every tinpot leftist worldwide. The color Democrats are afraid of being labeled.
It can and it will. One person at a time on the right can simply stop using the media-approved Orwellian newspeak colors. They in turn can correct their friends on the proper usage and how and why the mislabeling occurred and the agenda behind it.
Red is DEMOCRAT. It’s that simple.
Two Shirley Temples it is.
Red is the Commies color- stands to reason it should be the Commiecrats also.
I think today’s California Dems would think Karl Marx a Tea Partier....
THAT’s their big idea?????
No wonder the GOP is eternally dead here.
The networks changed it before Clinton ran for president the first time. I remember having a "what the" visual jolt at the color change.
I figured they must have thought that Ronald Reagan looked so good with a blue background that they figured they would steal his secret to success, you know, because since he was so telegenic it must have been the color that got him two landslides.
FWIW, the origin of there term “Blue Dog Democrat” was predominantly Southern, Conservative Democrats who had stood by their Party’s nonsense until they were “blue in the face”.
Color association with the parties didn’t play a role.
what took so long?
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