Home-schooled through high school except for 2 years. BS in Business Administration. Served in Iraq (albeit in a support role). Publicly criticized Obama, Clinton and Wasserman-Schultz. Against TPP.
Although she takes the usual lefty positions on abortion, LGBT stuff, etc., she appears to be an independent critical thinker on a lot of things, and it’s not hard to see why the Democrat Old Guard doesn’t like her.
All abominations, but she's right on Syria.