Toomey claims that "the Club for Growth PAC supports pro-growth, limited-government candidates who oppose wasteful earmarks and support cutting taxes." Unfortunately, the club's rhetoric and the facts don't match up. The reality is that the Club for Growth is little more than a front for radical social conservatives who would rather destroy the GOP than sacrifice an inch of its divisive agenda.

The Club for Growth cherry-picks the records of its endorsees and their opponents in an attempt to paint an image that their endorsements are predicated solely on "pro-growth, limited-government" policies. Nothing could be further from the truth.

For proof of the club's true intentions, one needs to look no further than Tim Walberg, the candidate Toomey is offering up in Michigan's 7th District to challenge incumbent Republican Joe Schwarz.

Rep. Schwarz's record of supporting tax cuts and fighting for limited government is clear. He voted for President Bush's Tax Cut Extension Bill (H.R. 4297), which extended the reduced 15 percent tax rate for capital gains and dividends for two more years. He also voted for legislation to permanently repeal the Death Tax (H.R. 8); for the Stealth Tax Relief Act (H.R. 4096), which extended the exemption from the higher Alternative Minimum Tax and for the Deficit Reduction Act (H.R. 4096). He co-sponsored a resolution (H.CON.RES.301) that calls for the elimination of a current federal program of equal or greater cost whenever any new federal program is created.

In fact, Joe Schwarz's record of tax-cutting accomplishment earned him Americans for Tax Reform's prestigious Hero of the Taxpayer Award.

Given Schwarz's record of fiscal conservatism, it's not surprising that his challenger Tim Walberg is basing his campaign on a litany of divisive social issues. Walberg's campaign is hammering Schwarz on hot-button issues like abortion and gay rights. Walberg and his campaign have run a series of TV and radio ads attempting to claim the mantle as the "values" candidate, and are trotting out a who's who of the religious right to campaign for him.

In other words, the money the Club for Growth has poured into Walberg's coffers isn't producing a campaign that's about "pro-growth, limited-government" policies.

Indeed, the Detroit News recently wrote, "Michigan's most contentious congressional primary is boiling over and could be decided not by war or the economy but on social issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage."

The head of Michigan's Chamber of Commerce, a tax-fighting group if there ever was one, declared in a recent ad for Rep. Schwarz, "Don't take seriously the claim by a few that Joe Schwarz is some kind of a flaming liberal. He scored 88 percent on the U.S. Chamber's voting record on business and tax issues." That score, by the way, earned him the chamber's Spirit of Enterprise Award.

The Club for Growth should come clean. On the surface, particularly in the organization's solicitation mailings, prospective donors are assured of the group's commitment to conservative fiscal policy. Yet the reality provides evidence of a different agenda. If the club were faithful to its stated mission, it would be supporting pro-growth, limited-government candidates like Rep. Joe Schwarz.

Rep. Sherwood Boehlert (R-Utica) is a board member of the Republican Main Street Partnership, founded in 1998 to promote thoughtful leadership in the Republican Party, and to partner with individuals, organizations and institutions that share centrist values.