Is Romney losing the election?

The spat involved with a video recently released by Mother Jones might very well be what killed the thin chance Romney had to win this year's presidential contest. His damage-control back-pedaling shows the candidate's confusion and the incident follows a dismal convention, punctuated by mediocre speeches and Clint Eastwood's disastrous intervention, as well as ill-thought comments made on the Mormon candidate's European trip, earlier this summer.

By now, Romney has showed that he can't safely speak without a tight script and that he's falling victim of a typical rich man's curse: Thinking that because he's rich, he's also smart. While his blunders might be energizing his political base, they're scaring the undecided and angering the opposition, and this will stimulate a higher turn-out from what used to be disappointed Obama supporters.