Conservative pundit Ed Achorn writes in today's ProJo on the US Senate race:
The Republicans desperately tried to "buy off" Mr. Laffey by offering to support him for the powerless (and pointless) job of lieutenant governor. White House political operative Sara Taylor -- known as "Karl Rove's right hand" -- tried to talk Mayor Laffey into running for something else than senator.
No go. Mr. Laffey, like Captain Ahab, seems intent on harpooning the white whale, whatever the consequences.
In Herman Melville's Moby Dick, Ahab gets his prey, but loses his life, and the wounded and enraged beast sinks his ship. Only one survivor bobs up, clinging to a "coffin-like" buoy.
In Rhode Island, the survivor's name could well be U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse.
Let's just hope that the Republican bloodbath will produce more destruction than the Democratic one.