It's also a net negative for women candidates if people think they want to be treated according to a double standard.
I was thinking about this today. Susie Buell Tompkins has announced that Kathleen Sebellius is unacceptable as Obama's Veep because she's not Hillary. I'm not thrilled with Sebellius myself, but she's an accomplished politician with a far more impressive resume than HRC, but she's supposed to be barred from the national political scene because it would hurt the feelings of one Clinton's millionaire friends?
Who the fuck made Susie Buell Tompkins the arbiter of what's acceptable?
Unbelievable.
