The reason I said it’s not eithet/or is that so many people took this post to mean they were being asked to relinquish their core values. No one is asking anyone to do that.
The issue is what to focus on, this doesn’t mean giving up any core values.
The left would never let a conservative candidate keep it all about fiscal issues. They will somehow find away to get your other core conservative values in the spotlight. Then it just looks like you were hiding something and it becomes a trust issue on top of everything else.