IT’S COME TO THIS: Watch James Comey Defend Hillary Clinton By Implying that She’s Not All that Bright (VIDEO).

Shades of the legendary Roman Hruska’s defense G. Harrold Carswell, Nixon’s would-be Supreme Court nominee in 1970: “Even if [she] were mediocre, there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers. They are entitled to a little representation, aren’t they, and a little chance? We can’t have all Brandeises, Frankfurters and Cardozos.”