It’s been a precipitous fall and a bitter winter for two Kentucky icons, Rick Pitino and Rand Paul.
KSR Nation needs no reminder about the Louisville coach’s troubles and traumas. (OK, I know you love it: Here are my takes on Escort-Gate.)
Rand’s fall has been even sharper and more dizzying. As recently as October 2014, the seminal Time magazine published a cover story proclaiming that Kentucky’s junior Senator was “The Most Interesting Man in Politics.” Many soothsayers of conventional wisdom agreed, and declared Paul a top-tier presidential candidate as the 2016 Republican caucuses and primaries approached.