The Club for Growth reacts to Rudy’s 12 Commandments – er, Commitments.

The Club for Growth applauded Rudy Giuliani for committing himself today to work towards cutting wasteful spending; cutting taxes and tax reform; free-market solutions to healthcare; legal reform; and school choice, but questioned why the former New York City Mayor omitted the equally important issues of Social Security reform, free trade, and regulatory reform.

Let me help them out with that. Social Security reform was left off because Bush proposed it and got beat around the head for it, proving that the country doesn’t have the stomach for a serious debate of the topic (Americans like any proposal except private accounts, raising taxes, raising the retirement age, or cutting benefits); free trade is less popular today because of people’s fears of globalization (and it’s getting harder to find other countries willing to play ball, as the problems since the Doha round started demonstrate), and regulatory reform was left off because only geeks and wonks like us pay attention to that.