Rich notes that:
Kansas governor Laura Kelly, a Democrat, released an ad last week saying, “You have seen my opponent’s attacks. So let me just say it: Of course men should not play girls sports. Okay, we all agree there.”
The Kansas City Star notes that, having done that:
The day after releasing an ad declaring “men should not compete in girls sports,” Gov. Laura Kelly clarified she believes participation of transgender student-athletes in girls and women’s sports should be considered on a case by case basis, as it already is.
This is the Democratic Party’s core problem in miniature. Kelly knows that progressives are lunatics on this question. But she’s also sufficiently scared of those lunatics that she felt the need to backtrack and muddy the water, lest prominent people say mean things about her in the newspapers and on late-night TV. Witness the Democrats’ well-honed suicide machine in action.