I suggested a while back that Sen. Tom Coburn should run for president.  That’s clearly not happening this time around.  How about vice president?  He would be a good dose of what this country needs: fiscal restraint.  He has been a one man wrecking ball against pork projects in the senate and said last week that out of control deficit spending is the greatest moral threat in the nation.

Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) said Congress’s deficit spending has become a moral issue surpassing abortion because it saddles future generations with massive debt before they’re born.

“The greatest moral issue of our time isn’t abortion, it’s robbing our next generation of opportunity,” Coburn told reporters at a breakfast meeting Thursday at the National Press Club. “You’re going to save a child from being aborted so they can be born into a debtor’s prison?”

The conservative Republican also criticized his own party, saying voters bounced the GOP from office for their hypocrisy. “It’s not a bad thing power changed last year,” said Coburn, who also criticized President Bush for not doing enough to curb spending.

In the absence of a Coburn prez run we do have another true small government conservative running: Ron Paul.  I wonder why it is that the best fiscal conservative from each house of congress is a gynecologist?

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