From the midweek edition of the Morning Jolt:

Bill Weld: Let Me Tell You How Great Hillary Clinton Is…

Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson’s had a disappointing year. Yes, some of the mistakes are self-inflicted. The question “what are you going to do about Aleppo?” came out of the blue, with no context. Not having any favorite foreign leader – or a willingness to even name one he liked – was a fairer hit. But how many candidates have had their running mate basically switch sides during the race?

Libertarian vice presidential nominee Bill Weld defended Hillary Clinton Tuesday night, acknowledging an explicit split with his running mate Gary Johnson.

Weld, in an interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, said he disagreed with FBI Director James Comey’s decision to announce publicly the agency was looking into more Clinton emails just days before the election and defended the Democratic presidential nominee whom he has known for decades.

“I’m here vouching for Mrs. Clinton, and I think it’s high time somebody did,” Weld said.

With friends like these, who needs enemies?

Sadly, Weld’s willingness to help out Clinton was predictable. Back on May 25, right here on NRO:

Three years later, (Weld) was hired to work on the U.S. House of Representatives Impeachment Inquiry into Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal.

“If I was the first staffer, Hillary Rodham from Yale Law School was the second staffer,” Weld told the Nixon Library Oral History Program. “She’s just a very decent person, and if I recall correctly, on the occasion when I got in the middle and [special counsel to the Judiciary Committee] John Doar himself got frowny-faced with me — which he should not have, by the way, I was doing my duty — I think Hillary intervened and defended me on that and I’ve never forgotten that.”

(Weld isn’t kidding: Earlier this year, he dismissed the scandal surrounding Clinton’s private e-mail server as much ado about nothing. “I’ve never bought that e-mail thing,” he told Boston Herald radio on February 29. “I don’t think anything was classified when she did it, it got classified later. . . . I don’t think she would lay a lot of stuff on the table that she thought would compromise our national security.”)