Romney's Relentless Rocky Road

Why can't Team Romney pull off a clean event?

*  The London trip to certify his foreign-policy skills went off-the rails immediately when he dissed Britain's handling of the Olympics.

*  His pick of Paul Ryan as the GOP vice-presidential nominee quickly outed Ryan's hypocrisy on the stimulus, and Ryan's false-speaking in his acceptance speech about who, when and why the GM plant had closed in his hometown was still a major story more than 24 hours later.

*  Romney's acceptance speech was overshadowed by Clint Eastwood's crude and rambling anti-Obama schtick.

*  An acceptance speech that closed with a Romney wisecrack at President Obama's expense about the rising seas even as Hurricane Isaac's flood waters were inundating Louisiana and heading north.

Why does Romney misfire so often?