I believe she is seriously mentally ill. Senile maybe.
but she may energize part of the base.
Her base - the ones who can vote for her - are a bunch of thugs and crackheads. Most of them don't vote at all - she has around half a million people of voting age in her district - not counting illegal immigrants - and the highest number of votes she's ever gotten is 150k in 2008 when they were all coming out for Barack Obama. Non-presidential election years she hovers in the 90k area.