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Thursday, February 23, 2012

2012 / Celeb This Is What Happens When Mitt Romney Tries to Act Human

Posted by Paul Constant on Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 1:02 PM

During yesterday's debate, Mitt Romney shocked the world by making a Seinfeld reference when he quoted George Costanza. It was almost as though Romney had spent some of his Earthly hours watching television. The thought of him sitting on a couch, perhaps with several bowls of snacks surrounding him, staring at a TV set and occasionally chuckling warmly, was enough to inspire many debate viewers to feel faint, as though they were staring at the sun for too long.

But every time Romney pulls on his human skin-suit and tries to pretend he's like everyone else, it backfires horribly. In this case, it inspired Jason Alexander, who played George Costanza on Seinfeld, to send off the best post-debate Tweet of the night:

Thrilled Gov. Romney enjoys my old character. I enjoyed the character he used 2 b 2. If he'd embrace that again, he'd b a great candidate.
— jason alexander (@IJasonAlexander) February 23, 2012

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Things are getting heated. Romney-bot replied: "The store that sells jerks called and they are short on their supply of jerks, of which you are one."

Posted by LogopolisMike

on February 23, 2012 at 1:22 PM

A little context set-up and the quote would have been nice Paul.

Posted by Phoebe in Wallingford on February 23, 2012 at 1:42 PM

@2: Or a link to one of the many articles already written about the line and tweet from last night or this morning.

Posted by stinkbug on February 23, 2012 at 1:49 PM

George Costanza would probably make a better President.

Posted by very bad homo on February 23, 2012 at 1:51 PM

I agree with Jason though, If Mitt was the Mitt who was gov of Massachusets I still wouldn't vote for him but at least he'd give Obama an honest challenge in November.

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger on February 23, 2012 at 1:57 PM

In response, Mitt's eyes and mouth twitched angrily a few times before a sufficient influx of relaxing hormones could be delivered to his facial actuators and he resumed his practiced smile.

Posted by Zebes