I think you are reading too much into the red blue reference. Context is everything in this case. Remember red is one of the colors of our flag. I don't think the red stripes are stripes of communism. Again context is everything here.
But we can agree to disagree on the color thing but I'm with you that it does not seem to make sense
I know when it was done, where it was done and why it was done. It is just that audacious. The media and the Democrat left have despised for decades the color “red”, especially as the Dems have taken over the position of the Communist on the ideology scale. It was a perfect coming-together to flip it on Election Night 2000.
No other country in the world, to my knowledge, has the color “Red” for its Conservatives. It is inseparable from the totalitarian left. That they got the GOP to swallow it shows just how gullible they are.
They’ve also tried to do the same with “tea-baggers”, which they know is a degenerate homosexual sex act, while snickering like little schoolboys. Fortunately that didn’t fly.
Understand the left and their allies play gutter politics, ruthless politics, Alinsky, et al, while our leaders (of the gutless ilk) play by Marquis of Queensbury or they just cry. It’s time to throw their labels back in their faces, just for starters...