Thank you for the warning on the South Park episode. I'll be sure to avoid it, at least for a while. "Unfortunate" is indeed a very polite term.

The blue/red thing does seem to be an appropriate color scheme: Rot ist Blut und Feuer und heißes Eisen! After all, the chief policy concern of the Bushies that friends in Maine (mostly kyroraz) have met seems to be "kicking ass." Whether it's the right ass or not doesn't matter to them. And besides, describing them as the new, new Red Menace seems fun as well.