GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney took a moment of applause at Tuesday’s CNN debate to deliver a “Seinfeld” line: “As George Costanza would say,” he told the audience, “when they’re applauding, stop.” Romney is apparently a big fan of the line, having delivered variations on it at another CNN debate and a South Carolina town hall back in December.
Except that the line is wrong, and George Costanza didn’t say it. In the 1998 episode Romney was referring to, Jerry Seinfeld advises George, “When you hit that high note, you say goodnight and walk off.” Jason Alexander, who played George Costanza, took to Twitter to express his pleasure that Romney enjoyed his old character. “I enjoyed the character he used 2 b 2,” he tweeted. “If he’d embrace that again, he’d b a great candidate.”
