Cruz is working the system cause he knows how it works
some may think that demonstrates he is really qualified.
whereas the rest of us think that makes him really crooked and slithering like “The Snake”
yes and he has hired the dreaded washington cartel he raved against for months... to help him work it even more efficiently!
This thing has millions of moving pieces. The people in charge of each of those pieces have to stay on track and still be adaptable enough to makes changes when required. You want to hire the best people and in this election cycle the candidates numbered in the double digits, all competing for those personnel.
Paul Manafort has been an advisor in some capacity to the campaigns of Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bob Dole and George W. Bush. He is just as much an insider as anyone Cruz has hired. Hiring the best, even if they worked for the competition makes sense. It does NOT mean you’ve adopted the ideas of your competition.