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Why is it that this:

made me think of this:

Perhaps some explanation is in order.

Lt. Gov. Bev Perdue, a Democrat, and Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory, a Republican (along with Libertarian Mike Munger) are running for governor. Perdue and McCrory have, in particular, been partaking in all the festive back-and-forth that has come to characterize our democratic process.

Among the things Perdue is doing is trying to tie McCrory to Bush. Bush has held fundraisers for the mayor and McCrory often talks about serving on the president's Homeland Security Council, so it ain't hard.

At any rate, Bush's approval ratings are pretty much in the dumps, so the political theory goes that if you tie McCrory to Bush voters will reject one because they don't like the other.

So today a nice young lady from the Perdue campaign dropped by the office to deliver ... wait for it ... as shrubbery...one that looks nice and is not too expensive.

The idea, of course, was to remind reporters of McCrory's ties to Bush. From our brief chat, I learned she was also stopping by the offices of other political reporting types.

At any rate, Ol' Shrub over there sent my mind wandering to the famous Monty Python sketch.

Come to think of it, Monty Python could have quite a time with any one of several elections 'round these parts. Of course, now I have to go consult the bosses on the ethical way to handle the delivery of a shrubbery to ones office.