Which fictional character do you think best embodies the GOP spirit?

[Rocknrule]

I think Cartman from South Park and Eddy from Ed Edd & Eddy are perfect examples of young animated Republicans. What do you think?

[ellenfl]

1. snidely whiplash

and as prez, dudley do-right . . . only in our current case it would be do-wrong.

ellen fl

[SammyBlue]

50. You stole my thunder! Damn you!!! I thought that before even opening the

thread.

I would put Dishonest John on the list too.

[ellenfl]

65. i didn't even have to think about it! it crossed my mind about

a week ago.

ellen fl

[Redbear]

99. Scrooge McDuck

Rich, arrogant, male, and white

[DemInDistress]

2. lex luthor .....nt

[tanyev]

3. Montgomery Burns.

[helderheid]

64. gotta agree with you

[tanyev]

88. Excellent.

[Telly Savalas]

83. With a dash of Frank Burns from MASH

[Mythsaje]

4. Fagan

From Oliver Twist.

:evilgrin:

[Rocknrule]

9. Don't you mean Bill Sykes?

Fagan may be a criminal, but at least he's good-hearted

I also think Dr. Evil resembles * and Darth Sidious reminds me of Cheney

[Mythsaje]

13. You have a point...n/t

Just the first name that popped into my mind.

[LondonReign2]

5. Chimpy = Yosemite Sam

Except I think Yosemite was a REAL cowboy.

The GOP as a whole? Hannibal Lecter.

[Rowdyboy]

6. Ebenezer Scrooge

[ktowntennesseedem]

32. Before the spirits converted him into a Democrat! -nt

[Mikimouse]

7. Draco Malfoy...n/t

[Rocknrule]

10. I said in an earlier post that the Bushes are exactly like the Malfoys

W being Draco and Poppy being Lucius of course

[Mikimouse]

21. I agree, describes them perfectly!...n/t

[Chiyo-chichi]

42. And Voldemort would be...?

PNAC?

[Quiet_Dem_Mom]

51. Cheney??? n/t

[newyawker99]

71. Hi Quiet_Dem_Mom!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[dogday]

53. Poppy Bush

what can I say?

[Viva_La_Revolution]

77. yep

[Coastie for Truth]

8. Daddy Warbucks from "Little Orphan Annie"

with a pinch of Dallas' JR Ewing.

[liberalitch]

11. Simon Legree.....

Or Randall Flag (the stand)

[Berserker]

18. Mr Hanky

[alphafemale]

12. Napolean from Animal Farm or those horrid kids in Lord of the Flies

[MaineYooper]

14. Commander McBragg. nt

[Skidmore]

15. Gollum.

Degenerate and obsessed with power and glitter and willing to carry us all over the precipice with them in its pursuit. And they snuffle.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

16. Jacob Marley while he was alive

Scrooge: "But Jacob, you were always good at business."

Ghost:"Business? BUSINESS? Mankind was my business!" Sobs, for he discovered that too late.

I see the chains and lockboxes on the ghost labeled "Haliburton" "KBR" and "Abramoff"

[chrisau214]

17. Satan

[democrat_patriot]

20. U beat me to it!

[FiveGoodMen]

70. My first thought as well.

[ZapaPaine]

19. Donald Trump. Oh wait, he's real. n/t

[aries_rules]

22. Hmm...

Lucius Malfoy as Karl Rove and Fudge as Bush.

[theophilus]

23. Mr. Potter....."1A, 1A, 1A, ....... 1A. n/t

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

24. Scarlett O'Hara

Selfish, self-absorbed, ruthless, conniving, and ignorant.

[demnan]

25. Any villain from a Dickens novel

especially if they're a minister, headmaster or businessman.

[NanceGreggs]

26. On the growing deficit ...

... Scarlett O'Hara. "Well, I'll just worry about that tomorrow."

[benburch]

27. Fearless Leader from Rocky & Bullwinkle nt

[longship]

38. That's right. And Boris Badanoff is Cheney and Natasia is Condi.

nt

[quiet.american]

28. The Orchs in Lord of the Rings so remind me of the GOP. n/t

[Rocknrule]

29. Dr. Robotnik from Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog

and Scratch and Grounder being his supporters/Fox pundits

Anyone remember that show?

[arachide]

30. Mr. Potter

from Its a Wonderful Life. Happy drafting kids, happy evicting poor people, happy buffing his superiority complex.

[meganmonkey]

41. LOL - Did you ever see the SNL skit with the 'alternate ending'

where George Bailey (Dana Carvey) goes to POtter's office after finding out he has the missing $$ and yanks him out of his wheelchair and beats the shit out of him!!!

Terribly wrong, and so so so funny!

:rofl:

[mark11727]

44. I SAW THAT...!

"You old phoney! You're not even crippled!" :rofl:

[ZapaPaine]

31. The Old Testament God

So full of anger management issues, psychological problems, ignorance, hatred, homphobia, xenophobia, an authoritarian dictator, warmonger, sadist, hypocrite, a true conservative a**hole..

[dryan]

35. Gordon Gekko...

from Wall Street

[malaise]

33. Thenardier from

Les Miserables

[Cleetus]

34. chimp=emporer (star wars)

[BushOut06]

36. Who was the head ape on Planet of the Apes?

That one. Authoritative, religious whacko, denying science. Yep, it all fits.

[DanCa]

39. Dr Zayus.

I was thinking more of gorrilia general though Zayus was smart.

[DanCa]

37. Gollum from lord of the rings (nt).

[GR]

40. General Buck Turgeson From Dr. Strangelove...

He had that jones for war that they seem to....Maybe Slim Pickins in the same movie....Also Napoleon The Pig in Animal Farm...

[madinmaryland]

43. Darth Vader, for the obvious reasons . . .

[CoffeeCat]

45. Chancellor Palpatine---Because he was evil and made others evil...

...and he was able to manipulate and twist the facts until Annakin was on the "dark side."

That's what these guys do. They twist reality to squeeze out the desired result.

[Rocknrule]

57. I agree, both are good at

making people believe that good is evil and evil is good

[blue2helix]

46. Golem

Blinded stupid by the ring of power that corrupts

[lectrobyte]

47. Gordon Gekko

he told us everything we need to know in 1987:

The richest one percent of this country owns half our country's wealth, five trillion dollars. One third of that comes from hard work, two thirds comes from inheritance, interest on interest accumulating to widows and idiot sons and what I do, stock and real estate speculation. It's bullshit. You got ninety percent of the American public out there with little or no net worth. I create nothing. I own.

It's not a question of enough, pal. It's a zero sum game, somebody wins, somebody loses. Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to another.

The point is ladies and gentlemen that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of it's forms - greed for life, for money, knowledge - has marked the upward surge of mankind and greed - you mark my words - will not only save Teldar Paper but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA.

[politicat]

48. John and Fanny Dashwood from Sense and Sensibility

She's utterly greedy, self-serving and only interested in what advances her own interests; he's easily led, cold, self-righteous and disinterested.

[mandyky]

49. Scrooge - Christmas Carrol

and Gargamel from the Smurfs LOL

[abex]

52. nice question! 'Sid' from "Huckleberry Finn"

Huck, after some behind-your-back lie of Sid's. "...you know Sid, you know he did."

[aka-chmeee]

54. Uriah Heep sans humility......n/t

[deutsey]

55. Bob Roberts

[G_j]

56. Satan?

:evilgrin:

[Batgirl]

58. "Biff" from the first Back to the Future movie n't

[FlemingsGhost]

59. George F. Babbitt ...

From the back cover summary of Sinclair Lewis', "Babbitt":

"With his portrait of George F. Babbitt, the conniving, prosperous real-estate man from Zenith, Sinclair Lewis created one of the ugliest, but most conniving, figures in American fiction--the total conformist. Babbitt's demons are power in his community and the self-esteem he can only recieve from others. In his attempts to reconcile these aspirations, he is loyal to whoever serves his need of the moment: time and time again he proves an opportunist in business practice and domestic affairs. Outwardly he conforms with "zip and zowie," is a "big booster" before the public eye; inwardly he converges day by day upon the utter emptiness of his soul--too filled with rationalizations and sentimentality to sense his own corruption. "Babbitt" gives consummate expression to the glibness and irresponsibility of the hardened, professional social climber."

[Marie26]

60. George Babbitt. nt

[blogslut]

61. I'm re-reading Shakespear's Julius Ceasar

Somewhat off topic I know. However, I can't get over the way Marc Antony turns it all around with his eulogy speech. I get the feeling Karl Rove modeled his political strategies after it.

[lpbk2713]

62. Ever seen the movie "Oklahoma Crude"?

Jack Palance played an evil character in that flick. He not only was a mean, nasty bully, but he enjoyed being a mean, nasty bully. If anyone ever played a rethug realistically on film it was he.

[warrens]

63. The Scorpion in the "Frog and Scorpion" story

Where the scorpion begs the frog to carry him across the stream. "You'll sting me and I will die," says the frog. "If I did that, we would both die, because I can't swim," the scorpion reassures himself. So they set off, the frog reluctantly. Halfway across, the scorpion stings the frog. As the frog goes into his death throes, he says, "Now we will both die. How could you do this?"

"I couldn't help it," says the scorpion. "It's my nature."

That partially explains their willingness to allow the rich to pay no taxes, their opposition to any environmental reform, and a lot more. Partially. The other part is...they're assholes.

[Rocknrule]

66. Dean Wormer and the Omegas from Animal House

"Greg, honey, is it supposed to be this soft?"
"Get up you faggots! Get up and fight for Chrissake!"
"Put a sock in it, or you'll be out of here like shit through a goose"

Perfect Republicans, all of them

[DrDan]

67. Calvin

[Rocknrule]

68. Nah

Republicans don't have a good enough imagination or a large enough vocabulary to be Calvin. However, they do share his hatred of females and education and his desire to be naughty.

[Ovett]

69. Ned Flanders

[saltpoint]

72. 'Roger' -- from LORD OF THE FLIES.

In Goldman's novel, 'Roger' is the stone-thrower, the remorseless and violent tall boy who visits terror and intimidation onto the others. He is emotionally inarticulate and seems to exist in a sort of fear/violence matrix. A very nasty piece of work.

So naturally the Bush administration came to mind in comparison.

This is a GREAT post.

[ultraist]

73. Satan

Total evilness

[yourout]

74. Emporer on Star Wars.

Evil....manipulative.....powerfull.....paging Luke Skywalker....Is Luke Skywalker in the house?

[proud patriot]

75. Pinky and the brain

[Sydnie]

76. Nya ah ah - Dishonest John

Help Cecil Help.

[redwitch]

78. DJ

You dirty guy!

[misternormal]

79. I'm undoubtedly dating myself, but...

Bush reminds me of Quick Draw McGraw, because he seems to want to do all of the "thinnin'" without the capacity to do it, as in...

"I'll do the thinnin' around here, and don't your fergit, it!"

At certain times, as in Bush's march to New Orleans, he turns into El Kabong...

And the rest of the GOP is emulated by Baba Looie, His faithful side kick, who knows he's full of crap, but is never able to tell him that.

Just a thought.

[HuskerDU]

80. Bush is an evil Roscoe P Coltrane and Cheaney is an evil

Boss Hogg.

Roscoe (from Dukes of Hazzard) was a combonation of arrogance and incompetance. Just add evil and you have George W.

[zonmoy]

81. servelan from blakes 7 or the master from dr who.

[Vidar]

82. Faust.

[sampsonblk]

84. They are all the Sith (Cheney is Palpatine for sure)

Forever will it dominate their destiny.

[Telly Savalas]

85. Don't forget about those guys in "Deliverance"

[jeannicot]

86. Colonel Klink

too incompetent to pull their plans off.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

87. Snidely Whiplash nt.

[Kerrytravelers]

89. Travis Bickle

You lookin' at me?

[omega minimo]

90. Ronald Reagan

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

91. the guy who has his way with ned beatty in 'deliverance'

comes to mind

[Ksec]

92. Homer Simpsons boss.

[leeroysphitz]

93. How about the obvious: SAURON n/t

[gumby]

94. Jabba The Hut

ewww

[ZapaPaine]

95. Gargamel, of Smurfs fame....n/t

[littlefrieda]

96. George Bush IS Frank Burns

[LeftyMom]

97. Walder Frey

heh

[Wordie]

98. Dracula. nt

[gulliver]

100. Judge Smales. Junior is Spalding Smales...

... as I've mentioned before. Also, there is Sonny Drysdale.

[Tim4319]

101. Bah humbug! Ebenezer Scrooge!

[Cocoa]

102. the flying monkeys

[mzmolly]

103. Archie Bunker of course.

;)

[New Earth]

104. Dr. Claw from Inspector Gadget

[Auntie Bush]

105. The Road Runner! Should have been wiped out long ago but keeps on

running with no end in sight.

[DaveJ]

106. Cletus the Slackjaw Yokel

[azurnoir]

107. President Clark from Babylon 5

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

108. rhoda penmark from "the bad seed"