I gave him $10 vs. Arlen Specter in a primary even though my hero at the time-Rick Santorum-supported Specter. Specter was more likely to keep the seat and a SCOTUS nominee was involved. Toomy was good but like the others went his own way. Might have been necessary as Santorum bit the dust in 2006.
IIRC, Toomey was a great Conservative Congressman.
However, he went over to the Dark Side as a Senator, confounding many of his supporters.
I never did understand what happened to Santorum?
Once though of pRick as the worst wasted talent of the last 20 years. Numbskull staff made him bite on ridiculous shit like banning the NWS in favor of private weather forecasting enterprises, and sure enough he had taken money from same. NWS is .0001% of the Budget. Pick your goddamn fights.
And then his repeated presidential electoral stompings made him anathema, except to CNN who uses him as a doofus punching bag. Dude is deluded.