My sister is one of them. And that is exactly the case with her. I love her dearly, but she has absolutely no political sense -- totally misconstrues conservatism and is reflexively supportive of anything deemed liberal.
And we are supposed to be the uneducated and intolerant ones...
In a way, she is correct. Facts and logic are quite unyielding things. Like I said, they TRY to pound the square pegs into the round holes. And fail continually.