fail miserably

Mitt Romney is only the latest politician to fail miserably at relating to regular people.

Controve, compose or invent tunes, foule fayle, fail miserably.

But it's more than likely, you must remember, that I shall fail miserably if I ever do play your father in the final.

A baseball team will fail miserably unless the captain places each man where he can play best.

Some officers succeed brilliantly at originating or developing ideas in the staff and fail miserably at handling men in the line.

I try hard enough to brace up before your sister and my mother, but I know that sometimes I fail miserably.