Republican candidate carefully avoids any mention in campaign-ads that he's a Republican.

[TheBlackAdder]

1. That's like the turncoat teabaggers in my town. The Reps use Red, but during election an off color.

They don't even have the loyalty to run under their own party colors, for school board and town council elections. Instead they run trying to give an impression they are more progressive and not affiliated with Republicans. The Republicans know who these people are, and will vote for them, but the casual voter won't. They might be also be doing this to splinter the Democrat votes.