You should consider option #3. We do not support a liberal for the Republican nomination.
Your whatever is bleeding
Every Republican nominee for president after Reagan was de facto liberal that only cared about working within the DC establishment.
You know all of the primary conservatives are just theater, right?
Most would rather see a candidate than isn’t beholden to the establishment and that won’t sell out the country at the first chance.
If Cruz truly believes in the ideals that he is proclaiming, he should stating that he will go third party too. After all, what’s more important, the party/establishment or the country?