Republican celebrates historic female party member by calling her a man

The Republican National Convention website features this historical nugget: The RNC in 1892, held in Minneapolis, was the first to allow female delegates. More than a century later, the GOP picked a woman—Jo Ann Davidson—to share leadership duties at the Republican National Committee. Now Davidson, with a political career that stretches back to the '60s, is the lead planner for next year's convention in St. Paul.

Davidson doesn't fit the Republican mold. She's been a longtime advisor to Republicans for Choice, and as head of the Bush campaign in the Ohio River Valley in 2004, she took no public stand on same-sex marriage. On the side, she runs an institute dedicated to getting more women into Republican politics.

If she's a bit of a maverick, you wouldn't know it from the RNC website, which includes a bio that mentions nothing of her work with women in politics and introduces her, in big blue letters, as "Chairman"—stopping just short of calling her Mister Davidson.

So if you bump into her around town—she'll be the one with the silver hair and the GOP standard-issue stick-on mustache—tell her you're looking forward to the party.