Toomey enters the "Veepstakes."

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQmCZ8SfPS0

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I know he won.

But is a 51-49 victory over a staunch liberal in a swing state in a GOP wave year really that impressive?

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It worked, but clearly not enough.

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I meant the latter. Eh, maybe I value close losses a bit more than most.

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5. Supported a bill dropping the waiting period to buy a guy from three days to one.

...Wait, there's a movement afoot to reinstate slavery?

I assume he meant gun. As someone wary of gun control, I actually agree with him on that.

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Toomey's fantastic, but still a 20-monther, and I doubt any 20-monther is getting picked.

Fantastic? How so? Genuinely curious as to your reasoning, not trolling. I have no particularly strong opinion on the man, but he's just a generic, bland, right-wing Republican no?

I mean, he wouldn't make a bad VP pick, I guess, as being bland and generic is probably a good thing after last time, but Republicans usually, in my experience, reserve their effusive praise for half-bright charismatics like Rubio and Palin.

Not that I'm suggesting you're a fan of the latter two, mind.

He likes Rubio but not Palin.

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Toomey's fantastic, but still a 20-monther, and I doubt any 20-monther is getting picked.

True, but he has equivalent experience to Nixon in '52. Just like Eisenhower needed to burnish his ideological credentials with a red-meat Republican, so may Romney...

Romney, the 21st century Eisenhower.

Minus killing the Germans. Or being an honest person. Or being to the left of Obama (creating highways, protecting entitlements, acting reasonable and taking a neutral route in a foreign crisis, etc.).