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Pat McCrory had a Mayberry moment Tuesday.
The GOP gubernatorial candidate had finished speaking at a meeting of the National Federation of Independent Business when he spied a white-haired gentleman with bushy eyebrows.
The man’s resemblance to North Carolina’s famous son, actor Andy Griffith, was not lost on the former Charlotte mayor.
“It’s a real honor sir,” McCrory said, pumping the other man’s hand
He went on to tell how he’d met Griffith 20 years earlier. In return, the man told McCrory that he really liked McCrory’s TV ad about how people in the state needed to work together. McCrory said maybe they could get together sometime in the future. Never mind that in 2008, Griffith, a Democrat, made a commercial for Democrat Bev Perdue who was running against McCrory. Apparently McCrory, in the spirit of Mayberry, is ready to let bygones be bygones.
After McCrory walked away, someone whispered in his ear, that “Griffith” was actually Art “Almost Andy” Fettig (“close enough for most’’), an Andy Griffith impersonator from Hillsborough who had performed before McCrory at the event.
Don’t that beat all?
