Jack Welch, former GE CEO, had some warm praise for Tim Pawlenty last night.

“if you asked me that a month ago, I would have said, well, Mitt Romney might be best guy, et cetera,” Welch told CNN’s Piers Morgan in an interview that aired last night. “The most obvious guy. But everything I see Tim Pawlenty say in the last month appeals to me. He’s not the jazziest guy in town. He’s not the most exciting. But if you look at what he says and his vision for America and that plan he put out in the last 48 hours. Every time I see him on an interview, whether it be your show or somebody else’s, the guy makes sense.”

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