National Anthem sung at the GOP debate in South Carolina

This is just way too frickin' creepy. The Republican Party held another debate in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, which was covered by Fox News. Just before the debate began, the GOP opened with a singing of the National Anthem that probably should have been presented at the beginning of a Miss America contest. Here's the YouTube video:



Then again, the playing of this Star Spangled Banner at the beginning of the GOP debate really does tell us something about the Republican Party. We know that the GOP places symbolism over substance--just look at all the Republican congressmen wearing their little flag pins on their lapels as a way of showing their patriotism. And at the same time, these same flag-pin-wearing congressmen are more than happy to continue sending this country down the destructive war path, killing even more young American lives in Iraq, for the profits of Exxon and Halliburton. The economic policies of the Republican Party are to deny that the U.S. is in a recession, and the way to combat the recession is for more tax cuts to the rich--we've had enough tax cuts already, considering that our national debt is over $9 trillion dollars, and we're wasting even more money in the disastrous war in Iraq. This is a Republican Party of failed ideas--No, it is even worst than that! This is a Republican Party with no ideas. And the GOP is now trying to hide the fact that they have no ideas over-symbolic version of a song that should be sung at the beginning of a baseball game. What is next--having the debates held in a baseball stadium?

Or in between the Miss America contest?