BOB FRANKEN: Get Over It!

Hillary Clinton can duke it out when she needs to. Or duchess it out. That was on display during the recent Democratic debate when she confronted Bernie Sanders' persistent charges that she is tainted by her financial ties to Wall Street and the political "establishment." His accusation, she spit out, was "a very artful smear." "Smear" is one of the most brutal pejoratives in the campaign game.

With Martin O'Malley no longer cluttering the stage, it was just Bernie and Hillary, mano a womano. And she played the female card: "Sen. Sanders is the only person who I think would characterize me, a...