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Is This An Onion Story? Bachmann Apparently Now A Swiss Citizen


Well, that came out of nowhere. America-loving Michele Bachmann, who said earlier this year she had a rather negative experience running for president of the United States, may be thinking about giving Switzerland politics a shot, as the Minnesota Congresswoman has just become a citizen of the western European country.

Bachmann, whose husband Marcus has always been eligible for Swiss citizenship thanks to his parents’ background, reportedly became a citizen of the small nation in mid-March and has the option of seeking office in her new land, according to a Swiss television report. Bachmann’s office confirmed the news to POLITICO:

“Congresswoman Bachmann’s husband is of Swiss descent, so she has been eligible for dual-citizenship since they got married in 1978. However, recently some of their children wanted to exercise their eligibility for dual-citizenship so they went through the process as a family.”

No word on whether she will try to rule in some form over there, although she did joke that competition in Switzerland “would be very stiff because they are very good.” After this presidential election, in which she duked it out with a bunch of guys, I think she can handle the peculiarity of running for office in Europe!

Many are wondering whether Bachmann will seriously give politics a chance in the slower, less chaotic country, but maybe she just wants to have an easier time planning European getaways with the family. Not everything is politically driven, guys.

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  • Ricky Hollywood

    Hopefully, she will go over there and stay.

  • LiberalMediaIsCorrupt

    Is this a woman-bashing site – or just Republican woman bashing site?

     

  • LiberalMediaIsCorrupt

    Have you ever done a story of Michelle’s foster parenting?

  • http://twitter.com/LauraDonovanUA Laura Donovan

    How did we even remotely bash ANYONE in this post?!

  • Anonymous

    No, the touchy feely stories only come into play when there is nothing good to say about a candidate….oh wait.  I guess they could do that.

  • Anonymous

    She is going for their excellent Socialized Healthcare..

  • Anonymous

    It’s “Michele.”

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_HB62J5OFDLFHOMD3DXN2PCROKQ Matthew

    Who would let this maniac raise children? Holy smokes… THAT should be the real story.

  • Anonymous

    Of course you didn’t do anything of the sort. However, any article that doesn’t shower praise upon conservative women is seen as a liberal hack job site.

    I find it interesting that she is now a Swiss citizen. I guess she just loves places with socialized healthcare.

  • Anonymous

    Slower, less chaotic?  Are you kidding me?

  • Zigeunerweisen

    Interesting. So the spouse is Swiss? I almost thought she was a Scandinavian(or her husband in this case), considering the predilection for a lot of them to live in Minnesota and Wisconsin.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WH3ZLMM7CUKUHUIMK4TKXW6SQE John

    If I was Marcus Bachmann I would want to leave the country too.  You can’t turn on cable news, comedy central, or even C-Span without seeing someone humiliate his feminine characteristics on national t.v.

  • http://truth-and-opinion.dyndns.org/ mavigozler

    So she’s a Swiss Miss…?

    (Yes, I just had to.)

  • LiberalMediaIsCorrupt

     I meant the posters

  • http://twitter.com/LauraDonovanUA Laura Donovan

    Haha thanks!

  • Anonymous

    Switzerland has one of the best healthcare systems in the world, and it’s universal! 

  • http://24ahead.com/ 24AheadDotCom

    I’ll leave the bashing discussion to others, but there’s no basis for “may be thinking about giving Switzerland politics a shot” that I can see. Even a “may” should be based on *something*.

    Take a look at the HotAir comments on this same story, with TP “patriots” discussing the various ways they plan to turn their backs on the U.S. Crazy on economics as she is, I would have expected a little better from Bachmann.

  • Anonymous

    MIchele Bachmann:  Anchor wife? 

  • DF2691

    Thought it was Marcus……

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    Why does she hate America so much?

  • Anonymous

    If Obama is re-elected, even more well-to-do Americans will become ex-pats. Second generation Irish have already gotten dual citizenship and I’d bet that there are many more people with dual citizenship than any of us know about. After John Templeton gave up his citizenship to avoid high U.S. taxes, the government tightened the rules, but the very wealthy can and will seek citizenship outside the U.S.- just as French nationals are contemplating after Hollande’s election.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/XVOR56LHNIAD6Q6JCE4RAZWDYI DC

    Traitor

  • Anonymous

    I agree,

    This woman was the Top Judicial Tax Attorney for America, she raised 12 foster children to give them a chance on a better life. She Has a Master degree and a PHD and became a Congresswoman…Yet the bottom feeding liberals want to diminish and call her names…

    She has done more for others then 99% of women out there and yet the left wing and liberal media would rather glorify women like Sandra fluke who wants free stuff given to her so she can have sex during her college years!

  • Anonymous

    Their loss; our gain.

  • Anonymous

    Does that make her bank accounts there legal?

  • southofthetexasborder

    Oh my good God, look who’s here. The infamous LMIC. 

    Hi Sweetheart, have you fixed your lovely home up yet? It looked really terrible in the picture D_A posted. How’s your husband treating you, does he still ignore your birthday and Valentines Day? How’s the 85′ yacht, are you allowed on deck, or is he keeping you down in the galley making your famous red sauce? How did she handle in the 40′ waves you were talking about over on the Scoreboard? Well Baby, grab your white sheet and lovely hood, you wouldn’t want those “darkies” getting a glimpse of that haggard face, would you?Whatever happened to Latin2? Was she deported or something? Your buddy Julescat got canned from her job didn’t she? What a shame.Tootles…

  • southofthetexasborder

    Are you one of either?

  • southofthetexasborder

    Ms Bachmann wants to take away a woman’s right to choose. She wants to take away Social Security, Medicare, Public TV/Radio, Planned Parenthood, Meals On Wheels, the right to use contraception. Good God where does it end. She wants the state to legally “rape” women who want an abortion. She wants to make laws based on her religious beliefs. 

    She raised the 12 foster kids with LOADS of $$$ from the state, the same type of support she doesn’t want other women to receive. 

    In short she is a RWNJ! With a little luck the voters in Minn. will oust her in November.

  • southofthetexasborder

    LMIC, how many unwanted children have you and your filthy rich husband raised? Have you ever been a foster parent to a racially mixed child? You said that you once spoke to a black person, how did that go?

  • Anonymous

    She was running for president while she was applying for a Swiss Citizenship.  Where are the birthers now? 

  • Anonymous

    She doesn’t have a Ph.D. She has a J.D. from the first entering class (1979) and last graduating class (1986) of the law school that had just been started up at Oral Roberts University. How much respect you want to give to a law school that only lasted 6 years, which was part of a university founded and then tightly controlled by a fanatical religious charlatan is up to you. Her mentor at ORU wrote a book on which she was a research assistant, which claimed the U.S. was founded as a Christian theocracy, and should become one again. If that is the type of scholarship she was exposed to in law school, I find it risible. She did also get an LL.M. studying tax law at William and Mary.

    Flame on, if you wish @NorCalSister:disqus . I hope you are not really so ill-informed that you actually believe what you said about Sandra Fluke, by the way.

  • bugspotter24

    In considering her choices in leaving Amerika, she was happy to find out the terrorists, for some reason, don’t hate Switzerland for THEIR freedom.

  • Clovis4

    Since when are females off limits? 

  • Clovis4

    She is still an asshole.

  • Anonymous

    JD does not equal PhD. 
         There is no research, no Qualifying Exam, no publications and no Dissertation Writing/Defense.  (Ex: most science-based PhD students take 5-7 years to complete their degree.  JD is either 3 or 4 years depending on whether P/T or F/T program).

    LLM does not equal MA/MS. 
    (Typical LLM is about two semesters in length.  Typical Masters is 2+ years in length and includes a Thesis and Defense.)

    Just sayin’.  Top Tax Attorney?  She only practiced for 5 years.  Heck, I’ve been doing Patent Law for over 6 years now..

  • Anonymous

    Too much crazy for one citizenship.  I’m surprised the nutso hasn’t gone back to be a Christian slave on that kibbutz but she even makes them uncomfortable.

  • Anonymous

    Top Attorney, please! Every vote that cow takes moves womens rights backwards.

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