Speaking on NBC's "The Today Show" right after his Democratic opponent, U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak, of Delaware County, Toomey repeated his bland debate talking points that he is happy to have endorsements from Republicans, Democrats and independents.
While trying to tie Sestak to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Toomey also complained that Sestak was linking him to Palin.
"Joe Sestak can't defend his own record so he wants to run against somebody else," Toomey said. "He's not going to be able to get away with that."
The Palin endorsement started strange and just kept getting weirder. She took to Twitter Tuesday to tell her legion of followers to back the Republican candidate in Pennsylvania.
Minor hiccup: Palin incorrectly named John Raese as the candidate. Raese is the Republican running for the Senate in West Virginia against Democratic Gov. Joe Manchin.
Not to worry. Palin deleted her erroneous endorsement and put up a revised version, then went on Facebook to endorse Toomey and Raese and a bunch of other conservative candidates.
A Quinnipiac University poll released yesterday called the Senate race a "statistical dead heat" with Toomey leading Sestak, 48 to 46 percent among likely voters.
Pints, politics, & familiar faces
PhillyClout spotted a familiar face this week in a political crowd at a local watering hole.
There was former Philadelphia Police Commissioner John Timoney, who left the top police job in Miami late last year, sitting with pals at the Irish Pub. He was waiting for an appearance by state Attorney General Tom Corbett, the Republican nominee for governor, who was campaigning with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
We wondered if a Pennsylvania State Police job or some other post in a potential Corbett administration was in the future for Timoney, who is teaching this semester at Harvard University.
