Tonight’s the night for Hillary. Go big or go home.

I don’t see much point in her staying on the high road tonight. If she loses this primary, any comeback is difficult. But it’s probably easier to run in 2012 against incumbent President McCain (or his veep) than to challenge an incumbent President Obama. Thus, her long-term interest is to see Obama lose. Thus, scuff him up and to hell with his chances in the general.

In her first answer, asked about the contrast between her high-minded comments and the last debate and “shame on you comments” less than 48 hours later, she’s pretty tough, hitting Obama on his mailer and on distorting her record.