“the lesser of two evils.”
It is unlikely that any of us will ever consider a choice between two candidates as anything other than picking the lesser of two evils. That’s because everyone is somewhere on an infinite spectrum of subjects. What are the odds that someone you don’t know would vote the same way on every issue you might find defining? Pretty small. The best we can ever hope for is hitting a majority of our top issues. And it is likely that even when we have an ideal candidate that he’ll vote down something you’d rather he vote up on. That’s life.
Just to make it more interesting, they trade their votes. “I’ll vote for your bridge to nowhere if you fund my social project.” That’s how it has been and always will be. If you tried to tell your guy to only vote for his core values, he would likely mentally roll his eyes while saying, “Yes of course I will.”
I will never hold my nose and vote the lesser of two evils ever again. After the votes are counted, you're still stuck with evil, and I want no part of that. To vote for the lesser evil would be compromising my own values. Even if a Rino Presidential candidate had Jesus as his running mate, I wouldn't vote for them. Besides, if voter fraud is allowed to continue, and increase in occurrence as it has been allowed to do so over the years, then it won't matter who you vote for. In the long run, there won't be any reason to vote at all.