VP or not VP: Red State shows little love for T-Paw

Red State recently held a roundtable discussion on who John McCain should pick for the VP slot. The conservative bloviators had few nice words for Gov. Tim Pawlenty.

Dan McLaughlin: Pawlenty has the most positives on paper, but I’m worried that his nerdy nice-guy persona would come across as too Quayle-ish for a national ticket that will be relying heavily on McCain’s tough-guy image.

Jeff Emanuel: Pawlenty is sort of a “blah” pick in my view; he’s all right ideologically (save for his agreement with McCain on AGW), he’s an all right speaker, etc., etc. — nothing special, just “all right.”

I assume AGW is shorthand for global warming.

Mark I: Pawlenty has skin in the game as one of McCain’s national co-chairs, but he is a big global warming advocate.  McCain is too, and that’s bad.  McCain has to know that picking Pawlenty would hurt him with conservatives on that issue alone.  Not to mention that there is a little of the “Who?” factor with Pawlenty and he looks a little too young.

So who do the Red State-ers actually like? The consensus pick seems to be Rhode Island Gov. Don Carcieri.