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Sam, Bugs, Daffy: Where Do You Fit In?
Recently, an intrepid Rico coined a phrase: “Yosemite Sam Conservative”. To illustrate:
As you see, Sam’s got the guns going. He listens to Mark Levin and The Blaze. Find him in Provo, Utah. Sam owns a three year supply of canned food and 144,000 rounds, just in case. Candidates: Cruz, Perry, Bachmann, Palin.
Sam’s a cantankerous partner to his well-off establishment suburban cousins, “Foghorn Leghorn Conservatives”:
Found: at the country club outside Atlanta, Tampa, and the Research Triangle. Enjoys Haley Barbour, Karl Rove, Mitch McConnell.
Their wary libertarian allies on the west coast are “Bugs Bunny Conservatives”:
They listen to Dennis Miller, read Reason and Camille Paglia, and will support Rand Paul—most of them.
Their east coast, big city, reform-minded moderate cousins are “Top Cat Conservatives.” Read: City Journal, National Review.
The only “Daffy Duck Conservative” is 10 Cents.
How do I flag a post for add hominy? You know, puffed up corn that has been soaked in lye. :-)
Never trust McVey. When he yells, “Duck!!!!”, he does not have your best interest at heart.
You forgot Elmer. :-D
Hang on a sec. My portable outrage is down. I’ll have to revert to manual procedures.
Please don’t demean the Warner Bros. canon by associating it with a Hanna-Barbera product.
I agree. Gary McVey is a cel out.
It’s pretty clear what kind of conservative I am.
(10¢ – pay no attention to the experts. These make great housepets. Be sure to get a wolverine and a honey badger too. You’ll be the talk of the neighborhood.)
Guilty as charged
This clip says it better than anything I’ve ever seen.
Here’s an even better clip from the same movie.
So if there are Yosemite Sam conservatives, are there also Pepe LePew libertarians? You know, the ones who think all the liberal cats have so much in common with them, and will fall in love with them if only they get to know each other better?
Unfortunately, Republicans think
will be Conservative if only We give Him amnesty.
Never fear. Republicans have a plan.
This is how you add hominy.
Okay!!! Now let’s grit rid of McVey!!!
No — you add hominy by singing a part directly above or below the melody….
Speedy might not, but his cousin Slowpoke Rodriguez might.
After all, Slowpoke he pack a gun.
I’m sick of other sunbelters always saying that Californians are wimpy conservatives, but lately this photographic evidence seems to prove that, sadly, maybe I was wrong….
144.000 rounds of ammo? But there are over fifty million…uh, yeah, let’s not complete that thought.
Son of Spengler
So if there are Yosemite Sam conservatives, are there also Pepe LePew libertarians? You know, the ones who think all the liberal cats have so much in common with them, and will fall in love with them if only they get to know each other better?
Speng, as realists we know there’s a skunk at every garden party, and after all what is Ricochet if not a dignified garden party conducted by civilized ladies and gentlemen?
Secret Squirrel…It is a secret ballot, after all.
Does that mean we also have a Morocco Mole?
…Zafar, maybe? <grin>
You don’t fool us, Red. You just like the kitten he’s holding.
What a great thread! I read City Journal and NR, but I’m temperamentally closer to Yosemite Sam. I think that make me El Kabong.
Okay, Red Feline, for you, a Canadian conservative:
And you’ll notice, BTW, that he’s catnip to the ladies!
Show us the next shot where the PM bites off and devours the head of that cute little furball.
The horse? Snidely whiplash? Of whom are we speaking here?
Snidely’s a member of the Labour Party, thwarted here in his effort to grab Edmonton’s oil. After I posted this, I realized that Little Nell’s affections seem somewhat ambiguous for a family website like ours. But I think we have to own up that both Dudley and his horse are authentic Canadian cliches with great smiles.