To be honest, I hadn't had occasion before to listen in any sustained way to Tim Pawlenty, the Governor of Minnesota, and possible Republican Presidential Candidate in 2012. Today Ed Morrissey posted three video segments of Pawlenty's appearance on the "Daily Show" last night.
Pawlenty strikes me as a genuinely impressive guy -- in command of facts, down-to-earth, unruffled, one who laughs naturally, and genuinely likable. The conversation was limited to domestic affairs. Click here.