The brilliant legal mind of Kavanaugh

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The Senate's job, of course, is to decide whether Kavanaugh has the brilliant and principled legal mind everyone wants from a Supreme Court justice, or whether he is merely average, or whether he might actually be just a partisan hack with a nice make-up job for his public display

And, of course, the Senate hearings might cast real light on this, as Kavanaugh lays out his defense

So let's take a quick peek at the some of the workings of Kavanaugh's brilliant legal mind:

1. The beer defense. I drink beer. I like beer. Not everybody who drinks beer is a rapist.

Take-home message: He plans to be a Supreme Court Justice who likes to drink beer, so maybe you could drink a beer with him sometime

2. The calendar defense. When I was in high school, I had a calendar and sometimes wrote down parties I had gone to to and who had been there

Take-home message: If he had tried to rape a girl at a party, he'd have noted it in his calendar

3. The Clintons defense. The Clintons are behind this

Take-home message: Vince Foster murder! Cigar sex! Bengazi! Pizzaria child-abuse!

4. The yearbook defense. I'm not going to talk about the crass comments in my high school yearbook

Take-home message: He was a nice hard-working, hard-partying, hard-drinking boy at a nice Catholic high school so it's just rude of you to notice the crass comments in his high school yearbook