In the days leading up to the Republican National Convention, which opened Monday in Minneapolis-St. Paul, the presumptive GOP nominee, Sen. John McCain, made news not for his policies but for his mental paralysis. Asked how many homes he owned with his wife, Cindy McCain, the Anheuser-Busch distributorship heiress, McCain couldn't respond. "I think—I'll have my staff get to you," McCain told Politico on Aug. 21. (The answer is, at least eight.) Here in Oregon, House Speaker Jeff Merkley, a Democrat who's running for the U.S. Senate against Sen. Gordon Smith (R-Ore.), made an issue of...…In the days leading up to the Republican National Convention, which opened Monday in Minneapolis-St. Paul, the presumptive GOP nominee, Sen. John McCain, made news not for his policies but for his mental paralysis. Asked how many homes he owned with his wife, Cindy McCain, the Anheuser-Busch distributorship heiress, McCain couldn't respond. "I think—I'll have my staff get to you," McCain told Politico on Aug. 21. (The answer is, at least eight.) Here in Oregon, House Speaker Jeff Merkley, a Democrat who's running for the U.S. Senate against Sen. Gordon Smith (R-Ore.), made an issue of...WW…