[dschapin]

I actually agree with you on that. However, since they aren’t alive to compromise their principles why not present them as more principled than they were in order to beat up on todays unprincipled democrats.

[cowboyway]

since they aren’t alive to compromise their principles why not present them as more principled than they were

There's plenty of other dead democrats he could had picked besides a drunken murderer and a Klansman.