Cruz is a strategist, his tactics on the surface are simple and well crafted and always challenging he is not afraid to tell his opponents exactly how he intends to beat them, and what weapons he will use to do it. He tells everybody everything and anything they might want to know, a tactic that will definitely keep them off balance wondering… is he trying to set a trap for us.
It is an observable recent phenomenon where telling the truth is more suspicious more curious then telling a lie because lying especially in politics is expected and normal. So use to lying are politicians that the truth is totally unexpected so much so it becomes unbelievable, confusing and confounding. Consequently Cruz’s opponents are left with nothing but angry responses, false accusations, deceit, lies, insinuation and innuendo with which to do battle, it is somewhat effective in the short term but quickly losses its luster.