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The McCain 'house' thing will die with the news cycle, maybe, but while it has some traction it does have the advantage of offering three major gaffes in one.

The first is, obviously, that the man has so many houses he doesn't know how many he has. So rich that he.......and so on.

The second is that it opens the door to his wife's riches yet again and puts her in front of the campaign. I don't think that they want too many Cindi moments out there.

The third is the meme about failing memory. And I think that is the most relevant.

He has these lapses. It happened when asked what being rich means in the Saddleback appearance. It showed when he couldn't answer the Viagra versus birth control question. He is genuinely flummoxed at abrupt, unexpected questions.

So am I.

And I am a year younger than John McCain.

I remember my Dad having these moments. He would try to get the answer and it just wouldn't retrieve.

That is the light panic that I see in McCain's eyes.

It wouldn't matter if he humbly accepted these shortcomings but he does not. He is a macho poseur and has to have an answer or a quip. A comeback.

But the rubber band is getting slack.

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