After years of sorting through the craziness of politics, I came up with three simple rules to help rank candidates:
(1) How they line up on the unborn child;
(2) How they line up on the Nation of Israel; and
(3) How they line up on the Lord Jesus Christ.
This is not a perfect measure, but in the long run, I have come to see that when they measure up well on these major issues for me, they seem to do well on many of the minors also.