Realists not wanted

I was thinking this morning: what do the presumably "closet" Obamacans like Chuck Hagel, Richard Lugar and Colin Powell think about John McCain's pick?

Ambinder reports.

Many Republicans were already nervous about McCain. On Friday, the Palin pick soothed one set of Republicans -- the grass roots activists. But the Palin pick unnerved another group of Republicans: the Hagels, the Lugars, the Krauthammers, the Powells -- the realist foreign policy crowd. (Think Lugar was thrilled by Charlie Black's interpretation of the vice-presidency as a four-year tutelage at the feet of the master?).

So, a handy cheat sheet of Republicans who hate this pick:

1. Anyone who is considered a serious candidate for 2012: Romney, Pawlenty, Huckabee.
2. More experienced and qualified senior Republican women who were passed over presumably because they are (at least sort of) pro-choice: Hutchinson, Christine Whitman, Olympia Snowe.
3. More experienced and qualified senior Republican men who were passed over presumably because they are (at least sort of) pro-choice: Ridge.
4. Equally inexperienced Governors who got passed over for some demographic reason: Jindal.
5. McCain's unmarried friends who curiously never seemed to get mentioned much in the veepstakes: Crist, Graham.
6. Republicans who are not batshit crazy about foreign policy: Hagel, Lugar, Powell.
7. Usless ex-Democratic Senators who are looking for a way out of their ineluctable political irrelevancy: Lieberman.

So, which Republicans do like this pick again? Ted Stevens?

Just Dobson, Perkins and Limbaugh? Weren't they McCain's "agents of intolerance" in 2000?