A good candidate should only support the passage of bills that benefit ALL the people. A good candidate should not support a bill that is only supported by a thin majority of Senators or Representatives. Certainly a good candidate should not support a bill only for partisan reasons. Your candidate should not support a bill that invests money and lives in a war that does not benefit all. Your candidate should only support bills that favor all the people.
What type of principle would favor all the people? A principle that states that no foreign government should apply FORCE to the nations’ citizens would. Certainly foreign governments should not put their troops on our soil or sponsor terrorists. No foreign nation should be given tariff free access to another nation’s “free market” that do not have the expenses of complying with humanitarian and environmental laws that unfairly lower the price of their products or do not honor the copyright and trademarks laws of that nation or that allow software, songs, and movies to be copied and sold for peanuts or that do not comply with laws regarding slavery, child labor laws or that do not comply with the absolute necessity of a truly free market that the monetary exchange rate is also freely determined.
A good candidate should only support the passage of bills that benefit ALL the people such as frugal and efficient government, quality controlled and tested government services, quality government liaison (no automated answering machines for starters), and an end to disproportionate and unfair penalties, sentencing, taxes, and laws. A good candidate should support quality and defect free government services, or endeavor greatly to do so. A good candidate should not surreptitiously pledge something that appears to benefit all such as “No new taxes” by borrowing at zero percent interest from increased social security revenues.
A good candidate will not endorse a principles like “the ends justify the means”, because this principle could justify the greatest crimes for the illusion of a wonderful future benefit. Even atrocities like genocide have been justified by feeble minded leaders making statements such as “the ends justify the means”. Similar reasoning exposes statements such as “pre-emptive strikes are the best defense”. The fallacies implicit in these justifications are found in books on logical reasoning. The expressions are known fallacies of “cyclic reasoning” and “begging the question” among others. These and similar fallacies are inherent in the thinking of infamous criminals and tyrants.
The signs are there. They have to be learned by the electorate whose only job is to elect qualified leaders.