Posted on 02/16/2016 8:03:31 AM PST by DAVEY CROCKETT
just wondering...
Same reason JEB! calls himself JEB!.
Maybe he wants to be associated with the memory of Edward “Ted” Kennedy.
Cruz = an Anti-Kennedy.
Ted is a nickname for Edward. Like Ted Kennedy.
It’s a Canadian thing.
Why don’t you ask John Bush.
I am called Tom, not Thomas.
Are you called Davey or David?
Personal preference. I worked with a guy named Andrew and insisted on being call that. I called him andy once and he corrected me quite rudely.
Such hard hitting questions. Whats next. Why does Cruz cut his toast the way he does?
Same reason Edward Kennedy called himself Ted?
Ted = Common nickname of Edward
You learning anything yet?
Well, David, probably for the same reason that you call yourself Davey.
A man’s name is whatever he says it is - I really don’t care what Bobby Jindal’s “real” first name is either. Let the Democrats play the name game, I’m glad to see people who want to assimilate into American culture.
Because fewer people will vote for Rafael or Daquan than will vote for a Ted.
For the same reason I call myself “Yashcheritsiy,” instead of my real name, which is “Awesome Dude.”
That's obvious by the spelling ability you exhibit.
I have a Nephew named Charles Edward.
Everyone calls him “Ted”.
never heard it used like that before, I get it now,
His dad is also named Rafael, and “Ted” is a common nickname for Edward.
sigh so it’s come to this, TCDS
When he was 13, Cruz decided to change his name to “Ted.”
Born Rafael Edward Cruz, he’d gone by the nickname “Felito” most of his life. Cruz describes the nickname often resulted in him being teased. He refers to that time of his life as a time where he was an “unpopular nerd.”
“The problem with that name was that it seemed to rhyme with every major corn chip on the market. Fritos, Cheetos, Doritos and Tostitos- a fact that other young children were quite happy to point out,” Cruz wrote.
Cruz wrote that his mother gave him the idea to change his name: “’Ted’ immediately felt like me. But my father was furious with the decision. He viewed it as a rejection of him and his heritage, which was not my intention.”
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/things-knew-ted-cruz-learned-reading-book/story?id=32165453
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