"Presidential candidate Gov. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) made a whopper of a campaign promise on Saturday: If he makes it to the White House, he will ask the U.S. women’s national team co-captain to serve as the country’s secretary of state.
“ 'My first act will be to ask Megan Rapinoe to be my secretary of state. I haven’t asked her yet so this could be a surprise to her,” Inslee said at the progressive Netroots Nation conference in Philadelphia. The governor explained that he wanted a secretary of state that leads with “love rather than hate*.” . . .
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. . . “ 'I actually believe this, because what I think what she has said that has inspired us so much is such an antithesis of the president’s foreign policies,” said Inslee, who isn’t the first politician to throw Rapinoe’s jersey in the political ring. When Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) dropped out of the 2020 presidential race last week, he joked that Rapinoe would have his support if she chose to run for the White House. “I think she turns 35 next July,” Swalwell quipped.
"Rapinoe certainly fits that bill for some. She has publicly clashed with President Trump, who she has said “excludes people who look like me and are me.” During her much-discussed speech at last week’s FIFA Women’s World Cup ticker-tape parade in New York, Rapinoe challenged the assembled crowd to “be better.' ” . . .
*Emphasis mine, TD: "Love rather than hate"?
Jay Inslee ranked as the absolute worst governor on taxing, spending "As Governor Jay Inslee embarks on his inevitable unsuccessful presidential campaign, seeming to spend more time out of Washington than in it, a new report rates him as the worst Governor in the country when it comes to fiscal policy. Literally the worst." . . .
And his Secretary of State who will interact with world leaders? Megan Rapinoe’s antics and foul language "Reading about Megan Rapinoe’s antics and foul language directed at President Trump and the disrespect that she showed during the playing of the national anthem, proves that she is a bitter recalcitrant toddler."She missed an opportunity to meet the president and state her concerns face to face. Instead, she chose to spew obscenities and show bad behavior and the leftist media was only too happy to coddle her. She cannot be taken seriously and I am saddened that her team members did not call her out for her childish behavior that tainted their accomplishments."
Sports columnists and left-wing pundits have also speculated that Rapinoe’s potential political endorsements could move the needle on the left while Trump is in the White House if she decides to get involved in politics.
“I’m not going to the f**king White House,” Rapinoe told Eight By Eight. “No, I’m not going to the White House. We’re not going to be invited. I doubt it.”Dennis Prager: We All Wanted to Love the Women’s Soccer Team. But the team, led by foul-mouthed Megan Rapinoe, disgraced itself.
Look at me, everybody!
"For the first time in my life, I did not root for an American team. Whatever the sport, I have always rooted American. And if those who called in to my radio show were representative of my audience, many millions of Americans made the same sad choice.
"It takes a lot for people like me not to root for an American team. But Megan Rapinoe, the foul-mouthed star of the team, and her fellow players made it possible.
"The U.S. women’s team disgraced itself. Either its members were cowed into submission by Rapinoe or they agreed (or, at least, never disagreed) with her attacks on the president, her reference to the White House as the “f—ing White House,” her refusal since 2016 to participate in the national anthem, and her repeatedly shouting during the team’s parade in New York City, “New York, you’re the motherf—ing best!”
"For example, Rapinoe said, “Every member of the team that I have talked to would not go” to the White House.
"Rapinoe is a great soccer player. Other than that, she is unimpressive. She comes across as arrogant, a fool, and a lowlife." . . . . .
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"With their politicization of their victory, their expletive-filled speech, and their publicly expressed contempt for half their fellow citizens, the women of the U.S. women’s soccer team succeeded in endearing themselves to America’s Left. But they earned the rest of the country’s disdain, which is sad. We really wanted to love the team.
"What we have here is yet another example of perhaps the most important fact in the contemporary world: Everything the Left touches it ruins."
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