now let’s get to who billy is in the tank for in 2010, starting with down ballot races…

1. mick mulvaney. no surprise here, staunch sanford supporter, policy council guy, and friend of billy. expect to see fits turn up the heat on spratt more than ever before. he’s getting paid to this time.

2. david thomas, trey gowdy. interesting situation here, but one that billy is no stranger to. opposing sides paying the guy, neither of which have knowledge of the other. the only problem… gowdy is a client of first tuesday strategies, the warren tompkins/terry sullivan firm that he constantly bashes. this isn’t the first time billy has done business with first tuesday, but more on that later…

3. james galyean. it may shock many of you loyal fits readers, but galyean is a close ally of lindsey graham. strange for old billy to be pimping someone like that on his blog wouldn’t you say?

4. henry brown. if you really believe all the nonsense about the palmetto state politicians that billy backs for “ideological reasons”, this one just doesn‘t make sense. not only does he trash brown’s opposition (tumpy campbell), but comes to his defense regularly.

that’s all for the down ballot, folks. we’ll move up to the top of the ballot in the coming days and have much more interesting revelations…