Teresita: There’s a Republican brand and there’s a Democratic brand. After nearly eight years of Bush, the Republican brand has become indistinguishable from the Democratic brand.

Although I supported GWB both in 2000 and 2004, I have to concede the truth in Teresita’s remark. I’m not happy about that, but I am even more troubled why, given the low approval ratings of both parties now, choosing an equally bad brand is a rational thing to do. But then, political choices do not always derive from rational thinking.