If the Obama camp is on it's game, it will start with the little things, the gifts she took as governor, the traffic tickets she got fixed as mayor of Smallville, and build up to the cop she's trying to get fired in retaliation for divorcing her sister, regardless of that cop's character — all divorces are messy (and that story does have legs). Then onto to her special interest affinities (lobbyist kiss ups) and ethics compromises as governor -- and they almost certainly do exist unless she's a saint, and that didn't appear to shine through tonight.

A wise cop once told me that the path to corruption is all about the threshold of conscience. Once you can rationalize petty corruptions, you have opened the door to the big stuff. It's a natural progression, with it becoming more difficult each step along the way to turn back and go clean.

By the end of it, she'll look like another typical politician and lack any credibility to attack from the high ground. And it's all fair game.

I'm not talking about destroying her or her family. I'm talking simply about taking away the strategic advantage she has as newly annointed public figure. She herself said she's a "pitbull with lipstick." Wipe off the lipstick, and you're left with a mean junk yard dog with no inclination to share the yard, which is something most people will want to avoid, particularly in the ballot box.