Everyone knows the GOP is RED, right?

So why does the conservative confab CPAC, of late, feature a completely BLUE background, and many of the prominent speakers donning BLUE ties?

Is this a subconscious projection of wanting to look like Democrats, a facile attempt to cover conservatism in a comforting shade rather than an angry red, a Freudian slip of the 2012 election results, or some terrible oversight by organizers and some speakers?

Rand Paul didn't wear a blue tie.