There are a host of candidates lining up for the Republican nomination for a Virginia U.S. Senate seat in 2012, but a fundraising e-mail from the Tim Kaine campaign sent out Monday alludes to the most well-known – former Sen. George Allen – without explicitly mentioning him by name.

The man whose shoes Kaine hopes to fill, U.S. Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., sang the former Virginia governor’s praises in the e-mail, noting that while Kaine was governor, the state was named the country’s best managed state, best state for business, and best state for raising a child.