I was thinking that
She just seemed like a joke to me as well, another crazy introverted right-wing extremist in a country already packed to the gills with religious nutbars.
But last weekend got me thinking and then got me reading. Take a look at the way the Tea Party are working, the rhetoric and methods they use. Use 1930s Germany as your core point of reference. I'm not going to tell anyone what to think about that, just look at the way the organisation operates and the things they say, then draw your own conclusions.
If they're a joke it's not a funny one, not at all.
But at least she draws attention to it I guess by referencing blood libel.