Yeah, he seems so shady. There were a few flip-flops in the article, like with free trade:

Cruz initially was a supporter of trade promotion ("fast track") authority to speed up approval of the controversial Trade Promotion Authority free trade agreement, writing a Wall Street Journal op-ed in support of the measure in April 2015 and voting in favor of it in the Senate the following month.[15] However, on the eve of a crucial Senate vote on fast track in June 2015, Cruz flipped positions and abandoned his previous support.

Hmm

Then there's national security:

In 2015, Cruz voted in favor of the USA Freedom Act, which reauthorized the USA Patriot Act but reformed some of its provisions.

Then

In 2014, Cruz expressed agreement with Democrats such as Senator Patrick Leahy that "the sweep of the surveillance has been far too broad with respect to law-abiding citizens."

...

Immigration:

Cruz opposes the Obama administration's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which protects undocumented youth who came to the United States as children ("DREAMers") from deportation.

Then he tried to defy a SCOTUS ruling:

Cruz urged states to ignore the ruling, saying that states who are not parties to a suit are not legally obligated to follow the decision.[79] Legal scholars said that this statement is correct in a technical sense, but not meaningful, since lower courts are bound by the Supreme Court's constitutional rulings and non-compliance with the decision "amounts at most to a delaying tactic."[80] Stephen Vladeck, law professor at American University, called Cruz's statement "literally true, but deeply misleading."

Don't get me started with the environment. Then here's the kicker:

On foreign policy, Cruz has said that he is "somewhere in between" Rand Paul's non-interventionist position and John McCain's active interventionism.

How is that....even possible??

I agree with him on free trade, that internet sales tax and H-1B visa bills, but that's pretty much it.