Your despising of the Clintons is the real point: there was an anti-Clinton machine working for 20 years before her run, making everyone who listens to AM radio, or eventually conservative TV, absolutely hate them both. She was pre-judged before she ever got up there. Everyone had an opinion. What a fucking mistake.

That said I do think it would be silly to run another female candidate with this electorate, there is a gruff male-driven populism at work, and Dems/Progs/Liberals/Whomever would do well to play into it rather than fight it if, of course, we have another real election.