Fictional character who DEFINITELY was a Republican?? GARFIELD.

[SmileyBoy]

I was a HUGE Garfield fan when I was young (I really don't know why), and I had read every single daily strip from June 1978 to about mid-1996. Here's the behaviour of Garfield that I had deciphered over the years:

Very mean, insulting and abusive to Jon, his owner

Very mean and physically abusive to Odie, the dog

Would kill spiders at will and take pleasureable joy out of it

Very shiftless and lazy

Hated Mondays, even though he didn't work or have a job or a life (Not realising personal hypocrisy - A huge characteristic of the right)

Verbally abusive to his girlfriend, Arlene

Very entitled, bratty and spoiled

Very aversive to change

Very cowardly; he would be abusive and mean to people he knew couldn't fight back, but when it came to something that could fight back (i.e. vicious dog), he ran away like a sissy with his tail between his legs (literally)

Very gluttonous; He would eat all of Jon's food right in front of him and then insult him in his face

That's all I can think of right now, although I'm sure there's more. Garfield was like Mallard Fillmore without the politics. If he was a human, he'd be a RAGING right-wing neocon.

Discuss.

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. Interesting that garfield was the mascot of the cub scouts

for a few years. Makes sense now.

[SmileyBoy]

2. Oh yeah, he was. I remember that...

Makes ya wonder...

[Bok_Tukalo]

3. But wasn't that when the Republicans were the good guys?

http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/jg20.html

[Democrat Dragon]

4. Yup he's Republican

however Garfield IS anti-authoritarian, except when it comes to dogs of course.