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BY MICHAEL COHEN

So, Mitt Romney is having a bad September. Actually let me rephrase that: Mitt Romney is having a terrible, god-awful September that has likely doomed his already slim chances of being President.

There; that makes more sense.

Things are so bad that a day where the Romney campaign doesn’t self-immolate is now officially considered a good day. And on the bright side, perhaps his most invalidating moment of the campaign — when he accused President Obama,Jordan Pas Cher, based on false information, of sympathizing with anti-American demonstrators — has been largely forgotten under a wave of additional missteps including maybe the worst presidential campaign gaffe since some guy named George Romney said he’d been brainwashed.

Indeed, the best possible analogy that I can find for the current state of the Romney campaign is this clip from “The Simpsons” of Sideshow Bob repeatedly stepping on rakes:

Did I mention Romney is having a tough couple of weeks?

In fact, as bad as this week has been, perhaps the worst thing to happen to Romney received precious little coverage — namely,Doudounes Moncler, the release of Pew,air jordan, one of the more respected pollsters in the field, gives Obama an 8-point lead, which in our current polarized political environment is significant,Moncler Pas Cher. These numbers are broadly consistent with a that have come out in the past few days showing President Obama widening his lead,chaussures air jordan.

The Pew poll goes further then simply offering a snapshot of the race. It indicates that on nearly every metric,jordan pas cher, from personal favorability and connecting with voters to dealing with health care, taxes and foreign policy, Obama has a clear advantage. The only issue on which Romney leads is in reducing the deficit; it’s a 3-point edge that should really be closer to 30, when one considers how much time the candidate and his party have spent harping on the issue.

In short, with seven weeks to go until Election Day, it is a devastating result and one that suggests Romney has failed to craft a positive public image or dent Obama’s.

So all this bad news begs the question: How does Romney recover?

Over at The Atlantic, the always top-notch political reporter Ron Fournier : bad news on the economy, a foreign policy crisis, a bad debate, a gaffe, and my favorite, a Romney turnaround,air jordan femme.

But these have at best fairly slim chances of occurring, or necessarily benefiting Romney’s campaign. A foreign policy crisis is as likely to help Obama as it to hurt him, and considering Romney’s reaction to the last crisis, it&rsquo,doudoune moncler soldes;s hard to see how the guy who doubled down on politicizing attacks against Americans overseas would capitalize from a future one. Bad news on the economy can always provide a ray of hope, but unless Lehman Brothers magically is re-created and then implodes again, it’s unlikely to really take Obama down a peg.

Obama could certainly have a bad debate moment or a gaffe, but if you’re counting on no-drama Obama to dramatically drop the ball and say or do something so stupid that it causes his poll numbers to plummet, you might as well, hope for a lightning strike.

What about a turnaround? Funny you should ask, because as it turns out, according to , the Romney campaign has a “plan.”

Mitt Romney and his campaign are settling on a rescue plan to show more of him — in ads, speeches and campaign appearances. A big focus, according to campaign officials, will be on Romney talking a lot more about how his ideas will help regular Americans who remain deeply suspicious of him . . . .
. . . Romney plans to dial back on fundraisers and vastly increase his personal appearances — on the stump and in ads — to convince what’s left of the undecided voters that Obama has been a disappointment and that he has a specific plan that is less risky than the status quo.
Rather than talk about the broader economy, Romney will increasingly talk about his plans in terms of the effect on families, the aides said. This started before the Republican convention, when he boiled his 59-point plan for the national economy down to a five-point “Plan for a Stronger Middle Class.”

Let’s put aside for a second the general rule that unveiling new campaign ideas is something you try to do in a larger setting where you can speak to many Americans at one time with a singular voice. (These are called conventions.)

Even if this idea could work, what makes anyone think that he could actually do this?

The two overarching terms that have come to describe the Romney campaign to date are inept and incompetent. They have a candidate who is breaking records for campaign gaffes and misstatements and who also appears to lack the basic discipline needed to adhere to one consistent political message. These aren’t problems you can fix overnight.

This isn&rsquo,Doudoune Moncler Femme;t to say there is no chance that Romney could win. Obviously anything is possible. It’s just that as each day goes on it is becoming harder and harder to imagine any scenario in which he does.

Of course, he could perhaps adopt the foolproof method adopted by another Simpson character, Homer, when he returned to college and failed to study for his . But like Romney, Homer had a plan: “During the exam,doudoune moncler, I'll hide under some coats, and hope that somehow everything will work out.”

At this point, this might be as good a strategy as any.