If the fiscal side is most important then people will vote for the business guy, not the history professor.
The fiscal mess we are in calls for a revolutionary, not a cookie cutter, status quo business guy. Do you think Romney can turn the monstrous federal government around with the same-old tinkering for which the GOP establishment is famous? That's why we have this mess. Obama isn't the reason we are sinking. We need radical change in the way our federal government operates. Palin would be the best, Gingrich is next best. Ron Paul would be better than either Santorum or Romney, fiscally.