{"id":129542,"date":"2016-01-23T00:39:58","date_gmt":"2016-01-23T07:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/23\/by-the-supporters-they-claim-you-will-know-them.html"},"modified":"2016-02-08T22:21:55","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T05:21:55","slug":"by-the-supporters-they-claim-you-will-know-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/23\/by-the-supporters-they-claim-you-will-know-them.html","title":{"rendered":"By the supporters they claim you will know them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember, Cruz is touted by some as the &quot;sane&quot; and &quot;establishment&quot; alternative to Donald Trump. And this isn&#39;t a matter of just noting someone who&#39;s declared support for him, but someone whose support his campaign is publicizing as credentials as to why you should vote for him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/ted-cruz-welcomes-endorsement-mike-bickle-who-believes-oprah-forerunner-antichrist'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/rNGMtA8VramIOalxZ8WYiKFIRiwuXSd_1ENVw632yRi4TOXQxI2YwV9JuynIiJwPUxAWHGoPmqXt-T4=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/ted-cruz-welcomes-endorsement-mike-bickle-who-believes-oprah-forerunner-antichrist'>Ted Cruz Welcomes Endorsement Of Mike Bickle, Who Believes Oprah Is A Forerunner To The Antichrist<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nBack in 2011, when Texas governor Rick Perry was planning his first run for the presidency, he kicked off his campaign with a massive prayer rally in Houston called &#8220;The Response.&#8221; The event\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/XcLWtxboxfQ'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember, Cruz is touted by some as the &quot;sane&quot; and &quot;establishment&quot; alternative to Donald Trump. And this isn&#39;t a matter of just noting someone who&#39;s declared support for him, but someone whose support his campaign is publicizing as credentials as to why you should vote for him. Ted Cruz Welcomes Endorsement Of Mike Bickle, Who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/23\/by-the-supporters-they-claim-you-will-know-them.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;By the supporters they claim you will know them&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2016"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133809,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/06\/winning-friends-and-influencing-legislation-ted-cruz-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":129542,"position":0},"title":"Winning Friends and Influencing Legislation (Ted Cruz Edition)","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 6-Jul-17 5:09pm","format":false,"excerpt":"On the surface, this looks like vintage Cruz -- throwing a monkey wrench into the proceedings so he can score points amongst his followers (doubtless with an eye on a future run at the White House). 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