It's the political version of Texas hold 'em, and sooner or later everyone is all in.
Federal limits on spending by Presidential campaigns have become the political version of the 55-mile-per-hour speed limit: They're there, but they don't matter much.
Patriotism, of course, or at least the political version of it.
Shall I tell you a political version of this whole story?
Revisions of the story include a current political version, based on a Ronald Reagan monologue from 1976.
It is not surprising since the two have been a political version of the Bickersons for the last decade.
It's like a local political version of Saturday Night Live.
It was the political version of a deathbed conversion.
But for the Democrats, the political version of Murphy's Law has begun to set in.
There is a political version with Hillary Clinton in it.