Downing Street refused to send out Conservative cabinet ministers to rebut arguments made by prominent Tory Leavers live on air, because they insisted that "blue on blue" arguments would turn the national debate into a Westminster soap opera.
Last week, a US journalist interviewing the Rolling Stones offered up a 21st-century spin on the old 'Can white men sing the blues?' argument.
Is there any truth in what could be called the "Marlboros & Blue Jeans" argument: that exposure to heterodox, westernised culture could contribute to a crisis of legitimacy for the regime, as it supposedly did in Eastern Europe?
This blue-state argument has been persuasive Donovan and twelve other Republicans from New York, California, New Jersey, and North Carolina bucked their party and voted against the House bill.
They called out the NRA directly on CNN and Fox, and demanded adults reframe gun control as an issue of safety rather than a red-versus-blue-politics argument as usual.
A state court judge was unswayed by the big blue giant's argument that the sweeping, secret ask violated the Fourth Amendment, refusing last fall to quash the search warrants which had come with a gag order forbidding Facebook from telling the affected users about the request for their data.
All lives matter!" Argument: "Blue lives matter".
Moreover, Media Matters is right in pointing out that the press failed to analyze the contradictions in the Blue Dog's arguments as they simultaneously criticized progressive Democrats for creating reform bills that "did not include enough cost savings," and at the same time, insist that any public plan should pay doctors and hospitals more than Medicare pays.
The evidence for their argument: The Blue Devils had only six wins in the previous five years.
Such of the advertisements as were relied upon were marked, by order of the court, in blue pencil, during the argument to the jury.
