Is Josh Mandel The Next Big Thing?

I wouldn't think so, but Molly Ball writes up his bid for the Senate:

Republicans believe Mandel could be the next big thing -- the next member of a new generation of fresh-faced conservatives that includes Marco Rubio of Florida and Mike Lee of Utah, two staunch conservatives elected to the Senate in 2010 at the age of 39. Next week, in fact, Rubio is coming to Ohio to campaign with Mandel. "This guy is the real story coming out of Ohio," one longtime GOP consultant in the state tells me. "He's the rock star of the party."
A former Marine who was elected to the city council of Lyndhurst, a Cleveland suburb, at the age of 25, Mandel served two terms in the state legislature, representing a strongly Democratic district, before winning the treasurer's post in 2010. Now he is taking on Brown, the progressive stalwart Mandel describes as too far left for this perennial swing state. Elected in 2006 after a decade and a half in the House, Brown is viewed by the GOP as an accidental senator, swept in by a national Democratic wave. The race is likely to be one of the most intense Senate contests of the year.
Though he turned 34 a few months ago, with his big ears, boyish face and skinny neck, Mandel seems far younger. It's not just his looks. His tone of voice tends to rise at the ends of sentences; he often tilts his chin up and squints while he speaks. He talks slowly and deliberately, his sentences punctuated with "um" and "you know." At one point, he bounces up and down in his seat on the red and black striped Steak n' Shake banquette.

Soon after this, she makes him sound pretty clueless.  The guy worked about 10 days as Ohio Treasurer before he decided to run for Senate against Sherrod Brown.  He also seems like a dick, at least as a campaigner.