Wayne will probably go down with the ship, Capt Ahab style...
Ole Ahab got so target fixated and tangled up with that whale, Mobe-Dick, he lost it all. Ahab got sucked under by the whale he managed to harpoon and kill.
The whale in this scenario, is the dwindling NRA coffers, evidently in a death spiral, bled for so many years by WLP and his cronies. All this while we were continually coerced into giving just a little bit more.
DF
Exactly. And most unfortunately.
Or maybe
Slim Pickens style, as in Dr Strangelove, although
Slim had the attitude of a true patriot. The success of the Mission was his priority.
I don't see WLP in that picture.
My memory is getting older than I thought. Chill Wills was the Rider of The Bomb.