And it is a woman with a familiar surname in US politics that is asking for a chance to lead a renewed assault on Washington and rid America of, what she sees as, the scourge of Barack Obama, impending socialism and the grasping hand of big government.
Liz Cheney – 46-year-old daughter of former US vice president Dick Cheney – doesn't stand much over five feet tall in her cowboy boots, but from behind her sunglasses she radiates the kind of toughness that suits a place where you can still legally take a six-shooter into a bar.
It is very early days in her race for the 2014 Senate, but as Mrs Cheney takes to the stump to address a meeting of the Big Horn Basin branch of the Tea Party, she is breathing conservative fire and warning that America is facing "a moment of decision."
Just as Winston Churchill refused to "seek terms with Nazis" and "saved freedom and civilisation" in 1940; just as Margaret Thatcher saved Britain from the "ravages of socialism" and Ronald Reagan saved America from the "morass" of the Carter years, Mrs Cheney says it is now time to "stand up and fight."
The comparisons with Nazism might sound a little over-the-top, but not to Wyoming's Tea Party activists who believe with a passion that the essence of America embodied in the US Constitution, is being frittered away.
Most are over 60, and believe the America that they grew up in – hardscrabble, self-reliant, enterprising and "free" – is being suffocated by a stultifying blanket of petty regulation and political correctness that intrudes everywhere from farmyard to workplace; to classroom and beyond. » | Peter Foster in Cody, Wyoming | Sunday, August 25, 2013
