What was she thinking? Now, I wouldn't vote for her for dog catcher.
Swiss Miss
By Mark Krikorian
May 9, 2012 12:08 P.M.
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Tim Mak at Politico reports that Michele Bachmann has acquired Swiss citizenship through her husband’s immigrant parents. It’s not that they’re giving up American citizenship and moving to Switzerland, which is their right, if the Swiss permit it — rather, they’re acquiring dual citizenship. This is outrageous and she needs to hear about it.
I’ve met Representative Bachmann, and the leftist caricatures of her are scurrilous. She’s highly capable and no doubt a patriot. While I don’t think she’s ready to be president, she’d make a fine cabinet secretary in the Romney administration — but only if she weren’t also a citizen of a foreign country. Dual citizenship isn’t simply a matter of convenience, a way to make travel easier or a sentimental tie to the Auld Sod. It’s a formal declaration of divided allegiance, civic bigamy, if you will. As Theodore Roosevelt said: “There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag . . . and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”
People obviously have have multiple connections — church memberships, community groups, fraternities, ethnic associations, professional societies, etc. But one’s chief political allegiance is expressed through citizenship, through being a member of We the People — and claiming membership in two national communities is like belonging to two different religions, which means neither is accorded the respect due it.
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