When Hillary Clinton’s once-inevitable presidential campaign became this year’s Betamax, the anti-Hillary industry was left bereft, its dreams of selling Hillary voodoo dolls and barf bags suddenly dashed. Yet Gibson Carothers, an anti-Hillary entrepreneur, remained optimistic even after Barack Obama, not Clinton, secured the Democratic nomination in early June. Carothers, co-founder of Eagleview USA, based in Rochester, Minnesota, says he has sold 230,000 Hillary nutcrackers (built with thighs of stainless steel, and retailing for a suggested $21.95) since June 2007. Carothers says he’s not against Hillary—the nutcracker, after all, has brought in revenue in the low seven figures—but as Amazon marked the item down to $19.67 from a more bullish $59.99, the entrepreneur moved to extend the shelf life of his product with a new slogan: “Will the vise president become the vice president?”

“I think she’s really putting the squeeze on Obama to be V.P., and that’s fine with us,” Carothers says (no pun intended, presumably).

But conservatives, ever faithful to the wisdom of the free market, are adapting to life after Clinton. Blogger Amanda Carpenter, author of The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy’s Dossier on Hillary Clinton, is so hell-bent on keeping the Clintons out of the White House, she’s content with the book’s curtailed relevance. Regnery Publishing, the right-wing house that has sold her book since October 2006, responded in late June to Obama’s clinching the nomination, revealing it would rush David Freddoso’s The Case Against Barack Obama into print this summer.

Hillary’s defeat presents a bitter irony for another Clinton enemy, David Bossie, whose political group, Citizens United, could not release Hillary: The Movie (“The first and last word in what the Clintons want America to forget!”) during her campaign because of Federal Election Commission regulations. After she conceded, the restrictions were lifted, but the movie’s potential audience seems greatly diminished. (As of mid-June, DickMorris.com still offered the DVD for $23.95.) Another site, StopHerNow.com, a clearinghouse for anti-Clinton books founded by a fan of the anti-John Kerry group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, once touted its mission as “rescuing America from the radical ideas of Hillary Clinton.” Reacting to changed political circumstances, the site is now called Stop-Him-Now.com. Its revised credo? “Saving America from the radical leftist agenda of Barack Obama.”