If you’re looking for a Republican presidential candidate with an economic and fiscal message that makes sense, this might be your guy. Not everything he says is going to work – as much as you might like to see the GOP refuse to raise the debt ceiling, the crash program of budget-balancing that would bring on would have to eat into entitlements and defense to succeed – but he’s pretty much golden on everything else. And it’s nice to see a guy running for president who looks comfortable in his own skin for a change.

Anyway, here he is…