If Thomas Jefferson ran today, would Democrats vote for him?

[Wakie]

Jefferson was a man of contradictions.  He was said to be shy around women but carried on several infamous affairs.  He believed firmly in the equality of all men but owned slaves and wrote some very terrible things about Native Americans.  He was, when convenient, a religious man but he wrote "The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth" which removed any and all divinity from Christ.

The truth is that almost no one who was President prior to the 1950s could get elected to the office today.  Heck, George Washington yearly spent the equivalent of $70,000 on booze.  Now THAT is a serious drinking habit.

[Wakie]

Jefferson was a man of contradictions.  He was said to be shy around women but carried on several infamous affairs.

What "affairs" do you speak of? If you are talking about sally hemmings their is no evidence of that.

And Jefferson loved freedom, so obviously Democrats would not vote for him.

Ummm ... DNA evidence recently proved that the Hemmings children ARE in fact also related to Jefferson.  So it was either Thomas or his son.  Also there were Jefferson's affairs with Maria Cosway and Betsey Walker.  I don't hold any of this against him.  I'm just saying that times were very different back then and that what was acceptable then may not be acceptable today.

[Wakie]

Honestly, it doesn't make a bit of difference to me if there was an affair between Jefferson and Hemmings.  But the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation (which owns Monticello and are the official caretakers of the guy's name) acknowledged that Jefferson was the likely father.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1069625

[Wakie]

Honestly, it doesn't make a bit of difference to me if there was an affair between Jefferson and Hemmings.  But the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation (which owns Monticello and are the official caretakers of the guy's name) acknowledged that Jefferson was the likely father.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1069625

Only because they were forced to "acknowledge" that by the NAACP and other such hate groups. I know people who know that family and they still vehemently disagree with the DNA "facts".

I don't think any living members of the Jefferson family were alive when Tommy J or his children were alive so it really doesn't mean crap what they want to say.  The evidence is strong enough for an official acknowledgement.