This is the intellectual biography of a magical-thinking teapartier who is, right this minute, willing to weaken our country for her own ideology.
Ann Marie Buerkle's education was a religious sandwich on technical bread.
Catholic schooling in Auburn, nursing school at a Catholic hospital, a Jesuit college degree, law school...this is not an education strong in building critical thinking skills.
Was the young mother Buerkle an involved, curious student at LeMoyne? More likely Buerkle was the student who made everything she learned fit into her own, already solidly forming, ideology.
Shortly after graduating LeMoyne she entered the uber-ideological world of Randall Terry and right-to-life-at-any-cost.
For allies she has always turned to those who give her certainty. Deaf to facts, she does not question. She is always right, and she will fit any situation to her narrow interpretation. There is no room in Buerkle's sphere for doubt, nuance, debate, individual autonomy.
And now she runs with a pack of know-nothings who would bring the United States to its knees and vote death to our strong democracy and to our precious values of individual freedom and opportunity.
