Imagine if Jefferson Davis' wife had run for president in 1872

Yet the tea-baggers seem to have no problem with someone whose husband is every bit of a traitor, who wanted to secede from the US. Why hasn't Todd's involvement with the Alaska Independence Party gotten more traction?

federal government (while still enjoying the many benefits of being a citizen of said government without wanting to pay for them), and they don't believe he was really involved with the AIP. They think it's a "liberal media spin" and just a part of the "media's persecution of the Palins", I shit you not.

I expect there would have been much derisive laughter and her husband still wouldn't have come into it.

if he'd be willing to run for President in 1868 by a group of Democratic lawmakers. I remember that from the Book, "Lee's Last Years."

He did not take the invitation seriously. For one thing he had reapplied for citizenship and it had not been granted until President Carter approved it in the 1970's.

We made it a cemetery so that he could never live there again.

that the government seized it illegally from him, and his son was paid something for it.

in response to the first SOTU of the first BLACK President--(in Richmond, capital of the confederacy)? THese folks don't have a clue about the unfortunate symbolism or just plain don't care to hide their racism, radicalism, treason.

I'm sure that was a very deliberate, subtle message on their part.

Plus, her supporters are outraged at how she is being persecuted by the media abuse.

Welcome to Palin in Wonderland.

...Check out some of the holidays in the states of the former Confederacy.

A huge biography of him came out not too many years ago called "Jefferson Davis: American." Excellent book.

He stayed in Washington longer than most southerners workig on a compromise to keep the south in the Union. He was on the Crittenden Committee in the senate that worked through Christmas trying to find a compromise. President Elect Lincoln m,ade it clear to his rpresentative Senator Seward that he would have nothing to do with the committee's work, so it died.

Davis did not go to the Confederate Constitutional Convention in Montgomery. He thought he'd be named a general since he had been Secretary of War. He was surprised to find himself elected president.

I think he did about as good a job as anyone else could have as President though he made many mistakes.