Please name such a candidate in the real world.
It is a test of everybody’s bottom line. Let’s say Bob Casey Jr. vs Rudy Guiliani. Casey Jr. is pro-life, and Rudy is pro-choice. Who would you vote for President between the two. Me, Rudy.
Huckabee would be very close.
This candidate does not exist in the real world.
To be left-wing on economics is to be marxist, socialist, and therefore hold liberal spending policies.
The reason why one holds marxist, socialist, liberal economic policies is because your social viewpoints demand other people’s money to spend on them.
There is nobody that exists that has social conservative policies about what to do about welfare programs, but has liberal economics that would massively and inherently contradict their conservative social welfare policy.
It would have the person say “I want to reform or eliminate welfare as we know it, anyone on welfare has to work, be tested for drug use regularly and lose it if you test positive, only citizens get welfare. etc” but then say “I want to drastically raise the amount we are spending on welfare to ever increasingly higher amounts.”
This is an impossible candidate. The candidate would have to be totally bipolar or willingly-ignorantly hypocritical to even pull any such thing off.
Well, such candidates don't exist in the US the way they once did. You don't have to go back many years to the old style Southern Democrats to find politicians that were very socially conservative and economically liberal.
You can still find a lot of these sorts of politicians in South America. There are many both socially conservative AND economic populist left wing politicians there. You see some of this very thing in places like Venezuela, Peru, etc.