They couldn't name a damned thing Obama wanted to do, but both swooned over how well he speaks in public, "and I put a lot of stock in that," one said.
I told her "I consider a liberal someone who votes for Obama because he reads speeches real well."
There are only two kinds: Communists and Useful Idiots.
These air heads fall into the category of “Useful Idiot”!
I wonder what would have happened if you had, after this remark, replied "yeah, but isn't the excitement you have when you hear him speak in public, isn't that more of a feeling than a reasoned reaction?"
I'm not putting it quite the way I'd like here. But that article did give me a clue as to how to deal with this kind of person. The clue is this: listen to them until you discover the "feeling" in their position. Then gently point it out, in a way that is calculated to not engage their ego and cause them to become defensive. This may mean that you don't try to "win" the argument. Instead, you try to reveal the truth to them just a little; your goal is for them to think about the exchange later, when they're not in a one-on-one argument that they may feel they have to win. Maybe, in the quiet of their own thoughts, they will remember the exchange with you and begin to question their reliance on feeling instead of thinking.