Dragging my country's good name through the mud :(

Brussels and Pakistan are attacked by Radical Islamist terrorists, with hundreds dead or injured, and all some Republican candidates for president of the United States can talk about is who insulted whose wife first?  This isn't a political campaign, it's a schoolyard brawl, of the "You dissed my girlfriend" variety.  I'd call it a barroom brawl, but such a description might imply that the brawlers are adults.