Dunno if this has been asked before, but would Ned Flanders be a teabagger?

[valerief]

:shrug:

[petronius]

1. My guess is no - Ned would see through the hate and bile and hypocrisy that

permeates the bagger world...

Milhouse's dad is probably a teabagger, however.

[NewJeffCT]

3. While Mr. Burns is one of the funders behind the teabaggers

I can see that as a good Simpsons sketch - Burns funds a "grassroots" campaign to support nuclear power...

[petronius]

10. Definitely - Burns, Wolfecastle, and Texan Guy would fund the movement

News Guy would see which way the wind was blowing and deliver slanted pro-teabag reports.

Moe and Milhouse Dad would be the footsoldiers, and Homer would wimpily go along.

Lisa would make a lot of well-meaning noise, while Maggie would sneak out to shoot somebody...

[NewJeffCT]

2. While Ned is a religious nut

I picture him as too nice for the teabagger crowd.

[jakefrep]

4. No

Ned's just an overly friendly Christian rube. He isn't hateful enough to be a teabagger.

[ipfilter]

5. Moe is more of the teabagger type.

[valerief]

7. He's mean enough but he doesn't see money in it (and where is money in teabagging?)

then I don't think he'd be one. You've gotta be stupid to teabag and Moe's not really stupid.

Maybe the smoking sisters.

[ipfilter]

8. The Smoking Sisters for sure.

[SteppingRazor]

22. Really? I don't know how many LGBT folks are out there among the teabaggers. n/t

[valerief]

6. Glad to see others don't see Ned as a teabagger. I don't either.

Homer would probably be one, though.

[Beer Snob-50]

27. homer would only be one however because he is a simpleton

sort of like i guess most of the teabaggers in the real world.

[KamaAina]

9. Ned lacks the edge of meanness that characterizes the teabagger

I mean, seriesly, can you picture a teabagger saying "Hi-diddly-ho, neighbor!"?

[valerief]

11. Ha! No, they'd be more likely to say, "Diddle this!" nt

[Initech]

12. After last nights' episode I think Lenny and Carl would fit the teabagging profile.

[EndersDame]

13. Cletus (ignorant) Helen Lovejoy (busybody) for sure would be Teabaggers

[SoxFan]

14. Good call!

I might throw in Comic Book Guy; seems like a Ron Paul type.

[EndersDame]

15. I see the comic book guy as apolitical and not concerned with the real world

[SoxFan]

19. The second part certainly describes a Ron Paul supporter!

:evilgrin:

[EndersDame]

28. I agree but I think he probably is too busy thinking about the politics of Gotham

or the Marvel universe

[jmm]

16. There's a good chance he'd be a tea bagger

He has made some comments that shows he looks down on other cultures and faiths. Then there are moments like this where he's even willing to suppress the truth because he doesn't like it-

http://atheistmovies.blogspot.com/2008/09/homer-simpson-proves-there-is-no-god-in.html

[Roon]

18. He burned Harry Potter books. eom

[cemaphonic]

21. While he is definitly judgemental wrt religion

He's pretty generous and considerate in most other respects.

He'd spike gay marriage for sure, but I don't see him as a teabagger.

[Capn Sunshine]

17. c'mon--HOMER would totally be a teabagger

he's easy to dupe and uninvolved

[SteppingRazor]

24. +1. If anybody's the teabagger, it's Homer. I have the evidence:

http://www.misanthropytoday.com/homer-simpson-i-hate-liberals-video/


Of course, Homer would be followed by the entire city of Springfield, once Homer gets them riled up into one of their patented pitchforks-and-torches town mobs.

On edit: By the way, apologies for sending people to a conservative site. It was the first one I found that had the video.

[DerekG]

20. Not the Flanders from the best years

I bailed after Season 9; the Flanders I'm familiar with is the most fundamentally (heh) decent denizen of Springfield--with Lisa and Marge not so far behind.

He wouldn't have voted for Obama, but he'd have the grace to wish him well. (All the while praying Roe v. Wade be overturned.)

[Juche]

23. Ned had empathy for other human beings

He wasn't the kind of conservative who complains that they aren't getting enough in social security in medicare (or that the public transit system in DC isn't spending enough on him) while complaining about welfare, universal healthcare or taxes at the same time.

Teabaggers are conservative, lack empathy for others (ie my medicare is ok, but your public option is evil), are extremely self centered and lack any real abilities for reason or logic. Ned only fits 1 of those 4 traits.

I can't think of any Simpsons character who fits all 4. Maybe Burns, but he'd be more of a behind the scenes fundraiser than the fanatical ground troops.

Skinner's mom is the closest I can think of to a teabagger.

[proteus_lives]

25. No, Ned is too nice.

Love the show and I think Ned is just a devoted Christian who sometimes overboard on the little things.

But racism? Anger? No, that's not him.

I also don't think Hank Hill would be a teabagger either!

[EndersDame]

26. Hank Hill always comes around to a new understanding and tolerance at the end of the episode

Dale on the other hand is more simpatico with them but might see the Tea Baggers as a way the government is trying to infiltrate or something

[proteus_lives]

29. I love King of the Hill.

Hank is one of my favorite animated characters. He's easily to tease but as the series goes on you realize what a good (if a bit inflexible) man he is.

Oh, Dale would be a teabagger and a member of ACORN. He distrusts everybody!

My favorite character has to be Cotton Hill. "I killed fiddy men!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Voc-gNu_H0

[Rabrrrrrr]

30. No - he might agree a little, but not at all with their meanness, nastiness, or joyful ignorance

Ned's a religious rube in many ways, but he's also an HONEST religious rube, and his heart is always in the right place - he's the rightwing conservative Christian who actually tries his best to follow Jesus (with the occasional Levitical or Torahic weirdness for comic effect for the show)