So you pay attention to what their message is but you know that they are lying to you?.?.
And then you go on to say you don't do continuums in politics but that you pick the one you think will screw you over the least. If that's not a continuum, I don't know what is.
I view honesty as one of multiple criteria.
If I have 4 choices that are pretty much the same across the board except for honesty, I'll pick the most honest.
Sort of like policy. No one candidate matches my preferred policies straight down the line. I rank them, weight them,.....kind of put them on a continuum.
If one candidate ranks a little higher on the policy continuum but ranks much lower on the honesty continuum, then I have a decision to make.
You are basically doing what one must do in order to justify their support for Trump, I get it.
All of his negatives you overlook with the absurd notion that all candidates share those negatives equally.
You view his positives as discernible and feel you can differentiate, but not his negatives. Convenient.