Who is your ideal candidate?

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Who are you endorsing in the 2020 Presidential Election?

I chose Bill Weld. But how can a pro-abortion, pro-LGBT Republican get the nomination, given the GOP’s association with the Evangelical Right?

He appears to be pragmatic with the economy and foreign policy, which we need more than ever now.

Tulsi

Tulsi Gabbard, unless Ron Paul is running.

I used to like Tulsi, but then I saw that she wants to raise minnum wage, that always backfires and hurts employees. What happens is employers cut peoples hours back, allowing no overtime. What good is it to male more an hour if it means you will make less per week? What good is wages going up slightly while food prices dramatically rise? That ruined it for me with Tulsi, does she actually research what happens when minimum wages go up??

It's already been done so many times it's pathetic, and is has bad results everytime.

Bringing down the cost of living runs contrary to the ideology of all mainstream economists, both on the 'Right' and the 'Left', eg Rogoff, Blanchflower, Krugman etc, and everyone at the Fed - all of these people believe in debt and inflation as the main engines of the economy. So it's not very likely to happen.

The only ones who don't are the so called 'Austrian' economists, and you really wouldn't want to be a member of the sort of society they advocate (basically minimal state spending and welfare, everything left to 'the market').

Why have Tulsi Gabbard when you can have Mike Gravel?

He's got the same socialist and anti-war credentials while also being good on social issues and justice reform. I don't particularly like him but I can at least respect him, whereas Gabbard gives politicians a bad name.

There are a lot of actually good candidates on the Democrat side. Booker, Buttegieg and Gillebrand would all make great presidents. Jay Inslee would be good but doesn't excite me in the way those three do. O'Rourke and Harris are a bit left-wing for my taste but I'd be happy supporting them. Biden, yeah, fine. Yang is a bit one note but it's a good note. Hickenlooper is a meme. Swalwell is a literal Who and I think he goes too far on gun control. Bill Weld is too fiscally conservative for my liking, and has no chance of winning the nomination, but he is a respectable man and is clearly a better candidate than Trump or Gabbard. Elizabeth Warren is a leftie but isn't too obnoxious.

Then the candidates I don't really like. John Delaney's campaign seems totally reliant on his first-mover status; he's too authoritarian for my tastes. I would hold my nose while supporting Sanders or Klobachar; Sanders is much too left-wing and Klobachar is an authoritarian. Mike Gravel would be strong domestically, but an utter disaster on foreign policy. There's no foreign dictator too evil for Tulsi Gabbard to support them. I would very reluctantly prefer her to Donald Trump - I imagine if she beat Trump she'd be out in 2024 and a good Republican would take over.

I naively supported a third-party candidate in 2012 and won't be making that mistake again. I might consider voting that way if I lived in a safe state (or a state where they had a genuine chance of beating the greater of two evils), but frankly the quality of third-parties in America tends to be very low. The Green and Libertarian Parties do not offer sensible platforms, the Justice Party is in even worse shape than in 2012, and the Constitution Party is not one I could ever consider supporting. I think all the sensible liberals are basically in the Democratic Party, and I can tolerate having a coalition with socialists and socdems.

Why can't we have Ron Paul back? At 83, he's barely middle-aged for an American politician. And he's been perhaps the only completely sane politician in America over the past fifty years, although I don't agree with everything.