I am glad you brought this up because despite the fact his personal life and finances were in shambles, he handled the finances of the nation very well.
Just like many of our heroes, he was not perfect.
I think then we as conservatives must always be careful to avoid the character assassinations of our enemies. While it is tempting to point out that Karl Marx was a moocher and lived off the work of others, we should stick to discussing his IDEAS, else our heroes be taken down by those same standards.
Where I fault Jefferson on the ideas front would be his love affair for the French. He failed to foresee that their revolution would fail in a tyranny of bloodletting. In the end though, his love for France and revulsion of the British was a good counter to the love in for the English we had in that tyrant, Alexander Hamilton.
‘Just like many of our heroes, he was not perfect.’
Few great men are, Ole Blood-n-Guts comes to mind