Being such a third party man, makes me wonder if you are not a liberaltarian. Are you?
Obvious to me, liberaltarian are not conservatives to begin with, no wonder they are against the Repubs, who, despite the RINO’s, still have men like Cruz among them.
As to your comment about Cruz running third party VP, how do you know he would? Cruz playing 2nd fiddle to Trump? 2nd fiddle to someone who it is doubtful as to whether he even is a true blue conservative? Were he to do so, I would lose respect for him.
The fact that you use a word like "liberaltarian" speaks volumes. Let me guess, you think it is clever. As far as 3rd party goes, the only point I made was to correct your error in assuming that 3rd party candidacies lead inevitably to a "split vote" which is then won by the Democrat. The only evidence we have shows that that is not the likeliest outcome. What any of this has to do with libertarianism is beyond me.
As far as the Republican party, which you praise because it still has men like Cruz -- men like Cruz are the red-headed stepchildren in the party. You may see their presence in the Republican party as a fact that speaks well for the party. I see how they are treated by the party as being far more revealing.