The National Education Association has a (very!) early Valentine’s Day message to American voters: “Mitt Romney has a strange way of showing ‘love.’”
In a new graphic posted to the NEA Facebook page, the organization picks up on Romney’s comment at Monday night’s presidential debate, where he declared he loved teachers.
The graphic shows instances in which Romney criticized teachers, including telling the Des Moines Register editorial board earlier this month that “hiring school teachers is not going to raise the growth of the U.S. economy over the next three-to-four years.”
President Obama seized on the issue at a campaign stop in Delray Beach, Fla. on Tuesday: “If you talk about how much you love teachers during a debate, but said just a few weeks ago that we shouldn’t hire anymore because they won’t grow the economy…I’ll bet you’ve got some Romnesia,” Obama said, using his new word for Romney’s flip flops.
NEA president Dennis Van Roekel told msnbc’s Thomas Roberts Wednesday that his group’s goal is to make sure voters know there’s “more than one Mitt Romney running for president.”








