Earlier I got an email telling me about the new "Mourning in America" video.

It's a clever takeoff on a vintage Reagan ad from the 1984 campaign:

It strikes me that strategically, those who remember it (and thus make the connection) would tend to be older voters with good memories.

Although I am loath to admit it (and such an admission would hardly be expected to endear me to conservatives), I didn't especially like Reagan, and I never voted for him. (I didn't vote for a Republican on the GOP ticket until 1996, and since then I have been loyal to the GOP.)

However, Reagan certainly looks great by way of contrast to Obama.

So does Bush.

In fact, so does Richard Nixon!

But somehow, I just can't see anyone with any influence on the right resurrecting any of the Nixon campaign ads.

I looked through the YouTube hits pretty carefully. None of them are a fit -- not even as political satire.

Political surrealism, though, is another matter. And it just so happens that in that department, I did find a vintage Nixon campaign ad video that I liked.

Astounding as it may sound, the ad includes a shot of Jerry Garcia.

12 seconds into the Nixon ad, Garcia has a frame all to himself, wearing his American flag hat, and right at that moment Nixon is saying this:

"American youth today has its fringes. But that's part of the greatness of our country."

Here's the embed:

Sorry. I know that the above has absolutely nothing to do with this morning's mourning meme.

Unless, of course, you still mourn Nixon. And Garcia.