Mike Munger isn't on the ballot yet, but he's already on the attack.

In a profile this morning in the N&O, the would-be Libertarian gubernatorial candidate said Beverly Perdue's ads are "chronicling a series of unfortunate haircuts," while Richard Moore's campaign contributions from Wall Street are "extremely unethical."

He also said he wouldn't trust his cats to any of the Republican candidates while on a trip to the beach.

"You don't trust them. You don't look at them and say, 'That's somebody that would manage to feed them on time, that would change the litter box,'" he said.

On his blog, Munger writes that his 18-year-old son has been yelling "Munger goes negative."

"I probably should have avoided criticizing someone else' haircuts," he writes. "Since, I mean, NO ONE knows more about bad haircuts than I do."

Earlier: Munger gets a haircut.

John Edwards doesn't have anything on Mike Munger.

The Libertarian candidate for governor may not have gotten a $400 haircut, but he did get a doozy of a trim this week.

Munger, chairman of Duke University's political science department, had his long, curly hair ironed, pulled into pigtails and shorn for the Locks of Love charity. 

In recent months, he had grown his hair long, leading one colleague to describe him as looking "like an aging rock star."

According to his blog, Kids Prefer Cheese, Munger gave his hair away to commemorate his wife's survival of breast cancer in 2004.

"To all of you who have wondered about, or openly mocked, my hair....that's why I grew it out," he wrote.