Every word I have heard come out of his mouth tells me that he doesn't get it... not even a tiny little bit.
I saw a speech he gave last year to a group of military personnel and he went on and on and on about more aircraft, more troops, more ships, more supplies, more deployments. He's made plenty of Bush Doctrine-ish statements about going around the globe to pre-emptively fight terrorists.
Add in his unprompted "corporations are people" statements, and then follow that with "I'll balance the budget," and something doesn't quite add up.
That said, I tip my hat to the Republicans for being so fiscally conservative.*
* Unless they are the ones passing the laws, in which case they pass wildly unaffordable prescription drug bills, slash taxes on the richest of the rich, start wars under false pretenses that cost 300 million dollars a day for an entire decade, and generally throw my tax dollars away like a drunken frat boy who wants to see some tits throws away beads at a Mardi Gras parade.
