Actually, Drew Carey, a pretty conservative/libertarian is a huge soccer fan, and he has a tv series on now about world cup and his travels with the US team.
Equating soccer to liberalism is just stupid, and typically xenophobic.
Tell it to the liberals. They love it because its "global", "European", gentlemanly, elegant, blah blah blah.
Their love for soccer is equivalent to the Last Lady's claim that she was always a Yankees fan.
Since libs wrap themselves so tightly on the altar of soccer, I'm not surpriesed to see FReepers hit back as hard against soccer.
I don't think it's equating soccer to liberalism, I think it's equating a certain type of "liking" soccer (which really doesn't involve being a fan of the sport so much as using it to bash America) with liberalism. And within that context it's accurate, every World Cup the sports world gets filled with columns by well documented liberal sports writers talking about how stupid Americans are for not liking the sport, not that they actually watch the sport of course they just want America to know that not liking it is stupid.
BTW, Dubya is pretty interested in soccer too. :)