“He is a conservative, and I think, when he’s in charge, he’d do things differently that when he was just a team player. He would clearly be better than Bush fiscally.”
If that were the case, his platform would “do things differently than when he was just a team player”.
It doesn’t.
No one would use that as a platform.
Even the president does not act with complete power. There are geopolitical and other realities that constrain a president. Even if Ron Paul were elected, things would change far less than you might think.