The Norm Coleman Weathervane Project You know Rumsfeld's career is on the rocks when Norm Coleman starts to join the chorus for his resignation. Minnesotans know Norm as the former Democratic mayor of St. Paul; the national media knows him as a neoconservative Republican senator. Of course, Norm would bristle at being labelled a neocon, but has he ever voted against this administration? Norm Coleman, as a politician, owes his ascendancy to one thing: being able to ride the prevailing winds. Prior to his campaign for re-election, Democratic campaign managers should start selling weathervanes with Coleman's face plastered in the center.