FORMER ARKANSAS GOVERNOR CEMENTING HIS SECOND TIER STATUS FITSNews - August 12, 2007 - Let's be honest, Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee finishing second in an Iowa straw poll where the top three GOP candidates didn't even bother to participate doesn't necessarily mean he's going to be
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Uno Bono
BONO'S "ONE" CAMPAIGN BUILDS UNIQUE, UNLIKELY PALMETTO POLITICAL ALLIANCES FITSNews - August 11, 2007 - We can still remember the first time we slapped a U2 album onto our parents' old stereo record player. The year was 1984 and the record was The Unforgettable Fire, which many regard as the band's
Read story »Preseason Don’t Count
PEYTON & CO. WILL BRING IT WHEN THE SEASON STARTS FITSNews - August 10, 2007 - Yeah, yeah, yeah ... so the Colts got beat by the Dallas Cowboys in a preseason game last night, prompting a deluge of anti-Indianapolis phone calls, text messages and e-mails from people who cheer for teams that are
Read story »Romney’s Buyin’ Votes Again
IOWA STRAW POLL LATEST PURCHASE POWER TEST FITSNews - August 10, 2007 - We've got to give former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney a little bit of credit. If you're going to spend campaign money like its going out of style, buying votes at a straw poll is at least an investment that produces a tangible
Read story »Why Are Ron Paul Supporters So Crazy?
AND WHY WON'T THEY LEAVE US ALONE? FITSNews - August 9, 2007 - We haven't written about Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul yet, probably because he has about as much chance of actually becoming president as we do. Of course that hasn't stopped a veritable army of his supporters from bombarding
Read story »Bullsh*t It Ain’t …
STAPLES GIVES US THE SHAFT FITSNews - August 9, 2007 - We probably should've known better than to shop at Staples - the office supply "superstore" founded by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's venture capital firm - but damn if that "Easy Button" didn't look enticing. Of course we realized this
Read story »Where Did All The White People Go?
JUDGE SMALES FROM 'CADDYSHACK' IS INCREDULOUS, PEOPLE FITSNews - August 9, 2007 - This morning's report that non-whites are now populational majorities (editor's note: not a real term) in fourteen South Carolina counties is big political news. Sure, Republicans are hoping to restore cracker majorities
Read story »South Carolina To Vote Jan. 19
STATE MOVES REPUBLICAN PRIMARY DATE FITSNews - August 9, 2007 - S.C. GOP Chairman Katon Dawson just announced in New Hampshire this morning that he was moving South Carolina's Republican presidential primary to January 19, 2008, preserving the Palmetto State's "First-In-The-South" status ... for now. Dawson's
Read story »Breaking – Sic Willie Killed In Oklahoma Motorboating Accident
TRAGEDY CLAIMS THE LIFE OF OUR FOUNDING EDITOR FITSNews - August 8, 2007 - FITSNews' founding editor Sic Willie was killed this afternoon in a tragic motorboating accident in the State of Oklahoma. Details are sketchy, but it appears that he was sucked into some kind of cavernous vacuum that proceeded
Read story »Romney Gets Served On Service
HOW OUT OF TOUCH CAN A POLITICIAN BE? FITSNews - August 8, 2007 - So flip-flopper extraordinaire Mitt Romney was asked why his five sons don't serve in the military at a campaign stop in Iowa this morning. Ready for his answer? Here it is, straight from Jonathan Martin's blog on The Politico: "One
Read story »Still The One
BONDS CAN HIT ALL THE HOME RUNS HE WANTS, HANK AARON WILL ALWAYS BE THE KING TO US FITSNews - August 8, 2007 - So steroid user Barry Bonds hit his 756th career home run last night, ostensibly "breaking" the record set in 1976 by former Braves' star Hank Aaron. So? So what. We've said it before and
Read story »Greenville Republicans Censure Graham
WARNING ISSUED JUST AFTER BRIDGE CLUB, PRIOR TO BINGO FITSNews - August 8, 2007 - We've never been the biggest fans of U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, but we were more than a little tickled yesterday when we received a blast e-mail from the SC Hotline saying that South Carolina's "Senior" Senator had been
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