Last week, a disastrous Twitter question and answer session saw him call critics "unhinged", "madmen" and "Tory scum" after he was bombarded with joke questions and insults.
Liberals like to point to Nick Griffin's disastrous 2009 Question Time appearance and the BNP's subsequent collapse as an example of this process, but Griffin was always a poor communicator: all it did was open up a wider space for Nigel Farage, who – for all his faults – is not.
After a string of disastrous elections, the question was not whether Mr Schröder would go, but when.
Given the belated understanding of the Beltway that austerity would be disastrous two obvious questions arise.
To avoid a disastrous repeat, their questions need to recalibrate the frame of the debate to put it in its proper context.
Peri Pakroo, a small-business consultant in Albuquerque and author of "The Small Business Start-Up Kit" (Nolo, 2010), suggests that businesses ask themselves a simple question: How disastrous would a name change be?
Every Republican candidate must now fear the spectre of Todd Akin, the Missouri congressman who became famous, in 2012, for his disastrous response to a question about whether rape victims deserved the right to an abortion.
And she used her position as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee to harshly question the disastrous Bush policy.
The researchers insist that the deaths were from causes unrelated to the procedure, but the disastrous outcome inevitably raises questions as to whether this procedure can safely be tried in humans without far more animal research and other preparatory work.
Now, TGN1412 seems poised to go down in medical history as a pharmaceutical lemon, its disastrous trial raising serious questions about whether patient safety is adequately protected in the lucrative race to get products to market.
