Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty gestures toward Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial candidate Tom Corbett during a rally held Friday at the Lancaster Airport in Lititz, Pa.

LITITZ — Three prominent Republican governors made a pair of campaign stops in southeastern Pennsylvania on Friday to stump for the state's GOP candidates for governor and U.S. senator as the days wind down to the election.

Govs. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota, Haley Barbour of Mississippi and Chris Christie of New Jersey started the day in Reading, then traveled to Lancaster Airport for a second rally to push their get-out-the-vote message and energize their base.

Pawlenty drew laughter from the crowd of about 200 when he compared spending by Democrats who control Congress to weddings.

"Watch the behavior at a wedding with an open bar, and watch the behavior at a wedding with a cash bar," he said. "It's time to close down the open bar."

Joining the governors were candidates Tom Corbett, the state attorney general and GOP gubernatorial nominee, and Pat Toomey, a former investment banker, restaurateur and Republican congressman running for U.S. Senate.

A number of Republican candidates in Pennsylvania are leading their Democratic foes in polls, as they ride a wave of discontent over unemployment and national deficits.

In northeastern Pennsylvania later, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey campaigned at a union rally for fellow Democrat Joe Sestak, the party candidate for Senate, a second-term congressman from suburban Philadelphia, and a former Navy admiral.

Sestak later joined Democratic gubernatorial candidate Dan Onorato in Philadelphia to receive the endorsement of the city's black clergy leaders.

Toomey and Sestak are vying to replace five-term Sen. Arlen Specter, whom Sestak beat in the May primary.

In Pennsylvania's race to succeed outgoing Gov. Ed Rendell, Corbett has built a solid lead over Onorato in polls.

Pawlenty and the others criticized the bailouts that began under former Republican President George W. Bush and the economic stimulus bill Obama signed in February 2009, and found a friendly crowd in heavily Republican Lancaster County.

"Obama has been a disaster and our country is moving in a direction that scares me, frankly," said Lancaster County resident Sam King, a Republican. "We need to turn things around before it's too late."