Republican Pat Toomey continues to collect endorsements for the upcoming May 18 primary.

Three major Pennsylvania newspapers - the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Harrisburg Patriot-News and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - recommended Toomey election in weekend editorials.

From the Patriot-News endorsement:

Toomey believes strongly that what unites Republicans in Pennsylvania and much of the country is push back against big government and continued overspending.

His track record backs that up. He was a three-term congressman representing the 15th District, which covers most of the Lehigh Valley and beyond to all of Northampton and parts of Berks and Montgomery counties. During that time he voted against his party and the Bush administration on the farm bill and Medicare expansion. He also was a vocal critic of the financial bailout, believing the government should have let the giant American insurance company AIG fail instead of propping it up with billions in financial support.

Read the full editorial at the newspaper's Web site.

From the ultra-liberal Post-Gazette:

He is socially conservative, doesn't like taxes, believes strongly in the free market, opposes excessive government spending, including taxpayer-funded bailouts and is against what he terms the government-controlled health care plan that recently became law.

The Post-Gazette endorses Pat Toomey as the best choice to carry forward Republican hopes for a Senate seat.

Read the full editorial at the newspaper's Web site.

From the Tribune-Review editorial:

Simply put, Toomey's conservative credentials are rock solid and he's a voice of economic sanity so rare in politics today.

Republicans should do on May 18 what they should have done in 2004 -- make Pat Toomey Pennsylvania's Republican nominee to the U.S. Senate.

Read the full editorial at the newspaper's Web site.