In your heart you felt she was nuts, but now you know it.
Those occasional protestations to being a middle of the road type of person never rang true when you observed all those posts she's had from Washingtons Blog, the 911 conspiracy theorist, who shows up, by the way, also at Barry Ritholtz' The Big Picture.
No one goes from being a moderate directly to anarchist communism unless they were something more extreme all along.
The first principle of all ideology is to lie in order to gain the confidence of the people, and if not the confidence, an opening.