what non answer? You can label any politician anyway that you want, and from your post you seem to want to define what a fiscal conservative is. And you are correct or at least your opinion counts as much as anybody else who is voting.
You get to define what a fiscal conservative is all the way to your front door, after you leave the house your opinion is just that your opinion and counts as exactly that. Your opinion of Rob Ford's actions and racisim are again just that your opinion, and again they count for 1 vote, if your opinion is prevalent then he will not get elected. Your posting of incomplete and out of context quotations is irrelavent to the issue at hand.
The issue at hand is who is the best candidate for mayor of toronto. The field is thin at best, of the available candidates Rocco Rossi is probably the most balanced as far as a platfrom goes but even his platform has some problems notably the sale of Toronto hydro, it has some major tax implications that will severly limit the price somebody will pay for it. The lose of 25 million a year from the revenues will also play a big role.
George Smitherman has no real plan beyond Hi I am George I ahve ideas that I will tell you about sometime. Please don't think about how badly I ran the portfolios I had in the Provincial govt.
Sarah ( can not remeber her last name ) has some interesting ideas but she also has plans that will never get past the provincial government ie., road tolls, that are integral to financing her plans.
Rob Ford has ideas and he has told eveybody about them, his stunts as far as things like not spending his office budget are just that stunts, but at the same time spending the budget on French lessons, sponsoring kids sports teams buying easter bunny outfits are stunts as well, the difference is those stunts cost money, money the city of toronto does not have.
Is there a place for a fiscal conservative with a chain saw in the Toronto mayors chair by all means, that is what has all the socialist spendthrifts trying to get the knots out of their underwear. The mayor does not have a lot of actual influence on the budgets by himnself, what he does have is the ability to select the committee members to all the money spending branches of the city government. Getting chairs on those committes who actually ask questions rather than just rubber stamping budgets will work wonders. The perenial money pits like the TTC and community housingwill have to explain why projects go over budget by several hundred percent, the answer well we did not know the building needed all that work will not fly. Adding 5 million dollars to a project without tendering it might even stop.
All in all Rob Ford might not be the worst choice to make for mayor, he might also explode in spectacular fashion that remains to be seen.
You can go on trying to define what you think is a proper fiscal conservative all you want but as I said earlier it is your opinion and your opinion is just that your opinion and it is good for 1 vote in the election assuming that you vote.