This Lionel Beehner guy never even visited the town by the quality of information he provides.
Here are the key moronic details Beehner fucks up:
1) “The highway that goes into town passes through peanut farms and horse ranches, although a few strip malls have also sprung up.”
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NY Times did what George H.W. “voodoo economics” Bush could not.
United the Republican Party.
Well played, NY Times.
You didn’t just endorse him, you rallied the religious right around him.