Fancy Farm, KY. August 2007. In the heat index of 107 degree August sun, this small town in Western Kentucky was the epicenter of a geo-political earthquake. The political earthquake struck at 2:35 p.m.
That was the moment in time that U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell hurried through his prepared remarks to avoid being booed off the stage by protesters. At that place and time, the political status quo was served notice that a new force in the American political landscape was making its bid for power.
