More Pushback.

The Kansas City Star is having none of it, a transphobic ad.

Transphobic ad gets Vicky Hartzler in the mix. But is the GOP actually for anything?
Editorial Board
February 16, 2002


Missouri Rep. Vicky Hartzler, who is running for the U.S. Senate, is out with a new campaign ad.

On inflation? Farm subsidies? Taxes? Democracy?

OK, that last one was a joke, but so is the GOP’s relentless focus on culture war issues.

According to Hartzler and her rivals in the GOP primary, the issues that matter are keeping “critical race theory” out of schools where it’s already not being taught, keeping immigrants we desperately need from entering the country, and keeping a transgender athlete in a far-away state from competing.

These are issues that have little to no bearing on the lives of most Missourians. But in focusing on them, candidates do get to one-up one another in heartlessness.

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“I won’t look away while woke liberals destroy women’s sports,” the congresswoman says in the commercial. “Women’s sports are for women, not men pretending to be women.”

But as the editorial points out,

If Hartzler were really worried about sports for women and girls, she’d focus her ad on inadequate facilities, poorly paid coaches, and discrimination on and off the field, not the occasional trans athlete.

But Hartzler really just wants to make people mad. And if she really thinks someone would change genders to win a race, maybe that’s because she and her competitors are so willing to become different people to compete.

And the board hit the nail right on its head, they do it to stir up hate and they end the editorial with…

The state, and the nation, face enormous issues. Deficits, entitlements, tax rates for the wealthy, inflation, child care are all on the table.

Kids are still hungry. People are still dying from COVID-19. There may soon be a shooting war in Eastern Europe. Voters are worried about things that affect their lives, not a college swim meet.

The Republicans don’t want to talk about issue, Trump never even had a party platform in the 2020 elections just like they did in 2016.

We know what the Republicans are against, us, immigrants, blacks, and other minorities, but what are they for?