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I think you are correct. It may have been a knee jerk reaction to throw Toomey's low Conservative Reviewscore just to illuminate his conservative standing. I could not check how he ranked in the overall picture. For some reason it mixed Senators with Representatives.

I checked his Conservative Union score just to see if there is a correlation. His 2017 score was 84% along with Rubio, Crapo, Risch, and Moran. What is remarkable is Flake got a 92% rating, up from last year's rating of 79%. If you look at those ratings, there are 5 groups at the top. Toomey is in the 5th group from the top. Toomey is actually down in the 2017 rating from 96% in 2016. For Pennsylvania, he is pretty good.

If you looked at McCain's rating of 57%, then you have something. It would be interesting to see Toomey's score for 2018.

Some of these ratings are misleading because they're based entirely on what someone defines as a "conservative" side of an issue.

Someone who is an open-borders advocate, for example, might get higher "conservative" rating than someone who wants to restrict immigration.

The same goes for defense spending. I don't think there's anything conservative about pissing away hundreds of billions of dollars on a U.S. military that hasn't been operating under constitutional constraints in decades.