How is this ad anything but brilliant, especially for a bunch of so-called political junkies?
The spot could have been highly effective but the Clinton team opted instead to make it a camp inside joke that only politics nerds will understand. The role should have been recast with either a well-known anti-Trump conservative figure (e.g. George Will) or alternatively, a youthful actor portraying a preppy College Republican type.
This exactly, and considering how far left Nixon is even to Obama now and how the Overton Window is to the right of even Goldwater...it has to be St. Ronnie invoked.
Something like "I voted for the Bushes and against Obama, my father voted for Reagan" literally would've said more.
