If you want to vote Left either for a Dem or a RINO/GOP-E is your choice. You are still voting Left.
So let’s say the general election comes down to a RINO (pick one - doesn’t matter) vs (Clinton, Sanders, Kerry or Biden). If you want to lay down and quit and stay home instead of voting or write in a long shot candidate who has no chance of winning — instead of voting for that RINO GOP candidate — you are playing right into the dems game plan too.
By your rules, you are damned if you do and damned if you don’t. I reject your rules and recognize that the world isn’t perfect, life isn’t fair and I don’t get to have my way every time. And I refuse to quit doing whatever I can (even if it’s just my one little vote) based on some arbitrary “conservative-ness peeing contest” that is only good as social-plumage in an internet discussion portal. But if it helps you to feel better about yourself and sleep at night, more power to you.
So here’s hoping it’s Cruz.