So Rudy Giuliani has just lost his internet guru, Patrick Ruffini.

Ruffini, a contributor to Town Hall, was a key Rudy employee and is a big deal among right-wing bloggers. He has "considerable street cred with the conservative blog set," according to The Politico's Jonathan Martin, and he previously oversaw Internet strategies for Bush's reelection and for the Republican National Committee. Ruffini has now left his job as Rudy's Internet adviser, and the split looks to be amicable.

But the main reason we bring this up is because Ruffini gives us a chance to offer an entry for the vast and growing Atrios Iraq Accountability Database, which is devoted to storing an ever-more-voluminous number of wrong public predictions about the Iraq War.

So here's our entry. Ruffini, writing for Town Hall back in February:

Shhhh...The Surge Is Working

A gloomy haze has settled over the nation's prosecution of the War on Terror as of late. It seems like we can only watch helplessly as Nancy Pelosi and Jack Murtha size up new angles of attack for undermining the war effort. The media is chomping at the bit to tell the story of an America, bruised and humbled and exhausted, heading for the exits in Iraq.

But something interesting is happening on the way to the "new direction." Early indications are that the troop surge into Baghdad is working...The strategy that Congress is busy denouncing is proving to be our best hope for victory....

This turnaround in Baghdad is confirmed at home by the media's near-deafening silence.

Shhh...that was three months before the violence of May, which killed at least 122 U.S. troops and was the worst month for U.S. troops in over two years.