Have no idea who Willie voted for, except to say that we don't vote for VPs, we vote for parties.
As far as my economics, I'm a capitalist in the Adam Smith mold; I agree with HIS take on free trade. He was definitely not a "free trade" in the modern sense. He was, however, an advocate of free markets, which gets us back to the original post.
He was a strong advocate of free markets and national strength. You know, "The Wealth of NATIONS." He did not write some idiotic rubbish such as "The Lexus and the Olive Tree" which I would rename "The Wealth of Traitors Running Global Corporations and Those in the UNFree Parts of the World Whose Boots They Lick."