How is Cruz an outsider? He is a professional politician. He has spent almost his entire adult life in government much of it in Washington DC. His wife Heidi is a CFR member and a leading executive at Golden Sachs, a most influential Wall Street firm. I do not get the Cruz is an outsider thing. He and she are very much insiders.
The gaggle that political pseudo "experts" such as Karl Rove, have assembled to direct the Republican Party, and the sheep they are still able to program, are what most of us consider to be the Republican "insiders." In no sense is there any evidence that the Cruzes are part of any such cabal. The Senator has repeatedly challenged their leadership; repeatedly exposed their folly.
Insiders don’t call the Senate leader of their own party a liar from the well of the senate.
You like another candidate, I get it. But lets acknowledge reality.