Parents of twins are a small but loyal club. We can pick one another out of a crowd. Turns out one of our senior members has a son running for president of the United States. From NBC’s Bethany Thomas, watching the GOP debate on Sunday night.

Huckabee just stood up for McCain’s age of 71 by bragging about his 95 year old mother, Roberta McCain. Have you met this woman before? She’s hard to keep up with and would be sitting in the audience if she wasn’t currently driving all over Europe on holiday with her twin sister. McCain usually answers the age question by telling the story of his mother who last Christmas was told she was too old to rent a car in France. So, she bought a car, had it shipped back to the US, and drove it from the east coast back to the west coast.

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