Patrick Ruffini

I told you so, and Patrick Ruffini agrees:

Rudy could be nominated, but John McCain most definitely could not be.

He explains why:

Patrick Ruffini argues that conservatives need an "outcome-based agenda" to argue for conservative judges:

Patrick Ruffini:

What kind of subculture generates these kinds of mistakes -- mistakes that conveniently tend always to fall in one direction? The same news media that was willing to believe this about U.S. troops was also willing to believe that they were deliberately targeting journalists. [emphasis added]

But of course, they're patriotic and they “support the troops.”

The real scandal here is that a retirement system you pay into with 10.6% of your income your whole life (and less if you're wealthy, since payroll taxes are regressive) can only provide you with a meager benefit of $922 a month -- and this is for Social Security at its zenith, before the baby boomers retire. That's not a safety net. In a $10 trillion economy, that's a massive, gaping hole in the safety net.
Thankfully, most people have other income to supplement their Social Security. But not the lower middle class recipients that are the Post's chief concern; that $922 is their only income -- if Social Security goes belly up, they're the ones who'll feel it first. Risk is what we'll have if we do nothing.