It’s finally 2016, and the campaign season is in full swing. We’re less than a month away from the Iowa caucuses, and the presidential hopefuls are pulling out all the stops. So let’s take a look at two new campaign ads, one from Donald Trump—his first paid for television advertisement titled “Great Again”—and another from Ted Cruz super PACs. Both candidates are inarguably the GOP’s two frontrunners:

Predictably, it says nothing new, or specific, and it plays on emotions. I mean, who doesn’t want to Make America Great Again after the seven-long-year nightmare known as the Obama Administration? Trump reiterates his stance on ISIS—yes, please, let’s pound them already—and that he’ll seal the porous southern border—yes, please, for the love of God, just DO IT—and that he’ll “make Mexico pay for it.” That last assertion has yet to be explained, of course. At this point, “cuz I said so” seems to be sufficient for his campaign. I have to say, it’s not a bad ad, short on detail as it is. It’s dark and edgy in a Michael Bay 13 Hours kinda way (cannot WAIT for the release of this film, Hillary Clinton!), it presents the viewer with the two most important issues to him—yes, millions of Americans are deeply concerned with national security—and it does so in a compelling way, using footage of hoards of illegal immigrants flooding over what looks like our southern border. There’s just one problem: The border in the video is not ours. It’s Morocco’s. And those aren’t Mexicans, or OTM’s, or would-be terrorists crossing into Texas and Arizona. They’re who-knows-who jumping over some fence on some other continent (see fellow Victory Girl Marybeth’s take on the ad here). Oopsie. Just a slight geographical misrepresentation.

Yes, I know. CNN is hardly the go-to source for “keep[ing] candidates honest.” But c’mon, Donald. There is plenty of footage of foreigners crossing into the United States illegally. Why not use one of those? But then again, you’re unfamiliar with the Nuclear Triad, and can’t name a single international terrorist, so what’s a little geographic mishmash between friends? And speaking of the nuclear triad—see GOP Debate Round Five for reference—Ted Cruz super PACs have a new ad out titled “Leadership,” and it pokes The Donald’s Professor of Everything Nuclear Triad, Marco Rubio, right in the Fantasy Footballer. Here it is:

It’s an effective ad: Visually interesting, gritty and dark—again, 13 Hours-like—evoking the dangers of radical Islam, and Iranian nuclear proliferation, and their looming threats to the West…except for that last bit. The super PACs’ ad thumps Rubio with an out-of-place, cartoonish jab at what appears to be his inattentiveness to his job as a U.S. Senator. Which is fair game, I suppose, except for one problem: Rubio was just crackin’ a joke. Here’s the full, unedited video:

As a side note, I happen to like the Rubio ad best. It’s amusing, lighthearted, and he pokes fun at himself. But back to the Cruz ad…There is plenty of fodder with which the super PACs can lambaste Rubio (though I’d prefer they’d gut punch the Queen of the War on Women rather than shooting inside the tent). Voters don’t appreciate any campaign ad that misinforms us. Cruz is better than that. So I’d urge those working on his behalf to stick to the facts, and let Hillary do the serial misleading. Then, should Cruz become the nominee, hit her mercilessly with both barrels. Given her history as an enabler of her husband’s multitude of adulterous sexual indiscretions, her utter failure as Secretary of State, and her general lack of anything resembling ethics, the ad potentials are endless, and glorious to envision. Regardless of who the nominee is, I, as a nerdy, political wonk, cannot wait for the eventual candidate to wipe the proverbial floor with her, in the debates, and in ads on every media outlet, 24/7, without relent. Let’s just hope the candidate is a strong, fearless nominee unafraid to take her on. Karma is a patient lady, and she’s been waiting for seven excruciating years to unleash hell on Hillary Clinton.