Notice how the DemocRATS have not won the presidency with a known candidate since 1960 and 1964. It seems the only way they win the presidency is with dark horse candidates who have had little national scrutiny till the year they were elected president. Republicans on the other hand have uniformly run candidates who were well known nationally long before they won their party's nomination.
I doubt a future Clintonoid would get the kind of pass by the news media that Clinton got in 1992. There are many more ways for information to get disseminated now than there were just ten years ago. The New York Times and other "elite" leftist news outlets no longer have a stranglehold on information and the power to determine which stories get carried in other newspapers. If the Paula Jones story had broken while Clinton was just a governor running in the presidential primaries, he just might not have gotten the DemocRAT nomination.