Dip Geckhardt isn't just "old" (62), he's "old" as in old-news old. He's been around forever, like Harold Stassen, always running for president and never making anything but the flimsiest progress toward that end.
Hitlery, on the other hand, isn't old-news old, despite every attempt to wear out her welcome. But for a woman, she WILL be old - at 61 by your account - in 2008. She will not be attractive to look at (unless ABC's "Extreme Makover" does a number on her), and either she will be only a year into a second term OR she will have been rousted out of the Synod by someone else - in which case she'll be jobless.
Plus, I just don't see America going for her - even my hard-core Dem mother wouldn't come within 50 feet of voting for her. No, the first woman president is going to be someone younger and infinitely more elegenic.
Michael