Pulling a Norm Coleman
Back in the early 2000s, there was this dick of a senator from Pennsylvania named Rick Santorum. He was such a schmutz that words like dick , schmutz, asshole, etc. could not encompasses his Santorumness. This lead sex-columunist Dan Savage to start a contest to define what santorum means. Go to the Wikipedia article to see what it means.
Fast forward two wars and several years to when Larry King, in an on-air conversation with Ashton Kutcher, brings a new phrase to our venacular: pulling a norm coleman. (h/t Minnesota’s MN Progressive Project).
According to the Urban Dictionary:
pulling a norm coleman: The dogged pursuit of a hopeless goal, with utter disregard for a preponderance of contradicting evidence and mounting public distain.
Example: It seems at every election cycle, Mike Protack pulls a norm coleman when he runs for office.
Perfect example.
The fact that you are hurting the organization you are pretending to help is a key facet of norm colemanitude.
W pulled a norm coleman in his pursuit of WMDs in Iraq, in tying Saddam to al Quaeda, ….
Jason, didn’t you do this with Palin? As in… I really palined that interview.
Jason, didn’t you do this with Palin? As in… I really palined that interview.
Yup… and 42 other people. I submitted it to Urban Dictionary and gave DL a credit (see #27).
When your name is a joke, it’s time to call it quits.
like when someone on the right pulls a McGreevey?
I’m talking to you, Mr. Foley Haggard!
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My favorite is “santorum”