Posted on 05/23/2004 3:19:32 AM PDT by Paladin2b
You're not the only one who recalls that. I too was stumped when they started labelling GOP states as red. All the time I grew up, they were always blue.
Roses are red
Violets are blue...
Er, wait that's
Roses are blue
Violets are red...
Is Bobby Vinton aware of this?
It's because of a twist of fate..
When the networks began televising election results, the convention was settled on that blue would represent the incumbent party and red would represent the opposition party. Between 1972 and 1992 the Dems got blue for only one election - Pres. Carter in 1980. Then, when Clinton was the incumbent he got blue for 1996 and Gore inherited it in 2000. Now, after four years of punditry on the Red States v Blue States in that razor-thin election, it seems the GOP is stuck with red and the Dems have coopted blue.
We'll see if it switches back this year but I'd bet money the colors are now here to stay..
"I'd bet money the colors are now here to stay.."
I venture you are correct. But that's OK, I've always liked red best. Too bad about not being able to use this new rose, well, we'll let the Tories have it for now. I actually prefer yellow roses above all others.
Ping for a pretty picture of a blue rose, now being developed.
Blue roses for a red lady?
I actually object to the set color scheme. There is a very good reason why the D's don't want red, and their media handmaidens won't give it to them. The color red has powerful association with communism...and its failure. That is meaningless if applied to R's, but a powerful negative when applied to the communists' socialist kissing cousins in our D party.
Look, "blue" has always applied to "BLUE NOSES", and no good Republican wishes to be one of them!
I don't even know what a blue nose is...regardless, it is not nearly as damaging an association as being red.
Better dead than red.
Blue Roses
Words and music by Paddy McAloon
blue roses will blossom in the snow
before I ever let you go
blue roses will grow up to the sky
before I ever make you cry
blue roses...
you need more reassurance
than a frightened orphan child
that I'm always gonna want you
that I'll always be beguiled
so I search for words to tell you
that my love for you is blind
but this fragment of a children's song
is all that I can find
blue roses will blossom in the snow
before I ever let you go
blue roses will grow up to the sky
before I ever make you cry
blue roses...
this nursery rhyme is corny,
it is stranded out of time
yet it's simple and it's honest
the same and since when was that a crime ?
and perhaps whoever wrote it
loved someone like I love you
for in matters of the heart I've learned
there's little that is new
blue roses will blossom In the snow
before I ever let you go
blue roses will grow up to the sky
before I ever make you cry
blue roses...
They'll teach your babies to smoke.
Ted Kennedy, John Kerry ~ that crowd ~ they are all "Blue Noses".
Recoloring the sates was a deliberate attempt to disassociate the color red from the left so thar "red" might cease to be shorthand for socialist-commie-stalinist-tyrant-immoral-etc.
Then that is no threat...it is not close to the truth. It is the truth in the charge of red that makes it so damaging to D's.
When the created the blue LED could the blue rose be very far behind?
Another gem added to our oxymoronic world.
Hank
She wore bluuuuuuuuuue VELVET....
Hear, Hear!! The same though occurred to me. It's time to recapture the blue!!
I strongly agree. I hope AT LEAST FOX corrects the horror!
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