Norm Coleman’s verbiage gives the impression of a highly intelligent man, until you start to realize that he doesn’t know what he’s saying. He wants conservatives to create a repository of knowledge so that they can compete in future elections without having to reinvent the wheel. Fair enough — that’s a reasonable idea.
After that, its downhill.
“And whether it’s on the ground traditionally, or today it’s in..it’s in the ethernet.”
Ethernet? Coleman wants to compete on the ethernet? Okay, so he mixed up computer networking technology for LAN’s with the internet. At least he knew there was only one and did not call it the “internets” like another well-known conservative.
The next line by Coleman is on mark but still gave me a chuckle.
“It’s in the …you know, it’s online. It’s in the blogs, it’s Twitter, it’s Facebook, and the next iteration.”
I can see that Coleman is trying to say that conservatives need to be involved in the next ethernet…er, internet development. However, iteration is more commonly used to describe redundancy or repetition. I just found that slightly amusing since iteration best describes the conclusion that he hopes his ongoing appeals to Minnesota election officials and courts will produce.
As Merriam-Webster describes iteration: “a procedure in which repetition of a sequence of operations yields results successively closer to a desired result.”
Appeal, appeal, appeal. So far, that desired result is not happening, though.
