The great animator Chuck Jones, when discussing his Road Runner cartoon series, used a phrase from, I believe, the philosopher Santayana, when discussing Wile E. Coyote's continual efforts to defeat the titular speeding bird. I remember the phrase as being something like: "A fanatic redoubles his efforts when he's forgotten his aim [surmising"aim" can be a synonym for "purpose" in this context]."
Exhibit A: Norm Coleman's Coyote-esque efforts to ignore logic and plain-to-see vote counts and boldly deny former comedian/liberal commentator/Bill Clinton acolyte Al Franken a Senate seat--regardless of how many times Coleman has cartoon boulders fall on him or one-way-down trips into painted desert canyons.
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/04/14/coleman/index.html
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