"It's not a stretch to say that we need somebody in the Oval Office, who's going to be president of the United States and commander in chief, who has executive experience leading a large enterprise in a public setting, getting results and balancing budgets, cutting taxes, doing health care reform the right way — no mandates, no takeovers," Pawlenty said, getting in a dig at Mitt Romney. "Not just talking about it, not just giving speeches at rallies, but leading as an executive."

"With all due respect, she just doesn't have that kind of experience," he continued. "And secondly, her record in Congress, as I mentioned before, is, you know, again, great remarks and great speeches, but in terms of results and accomplishments, nonexistent."