McCain Campaign Denies Producing 1994 Romney Video (Romney Camp Accuses McCain Campaign!)

A source close to Sen. John McCain’s presidential exploratory committee tells HUMAN EVENTS that McCain’s team had nothing to do with the video that appeared yesterday on YouTube showing GOP rival Mitt Romney at a 1994 debate with Sen. Teddy Kennedy (D.-Mass.).

The video sent Romney’s newly formed campaign team into overdrive, prompting the former Massachusetts governor to distance himself from the socially liberal views he espoused in 1994. Romney’s campaign produced its own YouTube video -- taped during an appearance yesterday on Instapundit’s “The Glenn and Helen Show.”

The Romney campaign, meanwhile, pointed fingers at McCain’s team for producing the 1994 video, according to Matt Naugle, who posted the debate footage on HUMAN EVENTS’ Right Angle blog.

However, HUMAN EVENTS has learned that McCain staffers were individually asked if they had any knowledge of the video. They denied having anything to do with it, and apparently first learned of the Romney video when it was posted on Wonkette yesterday morning.

Romney and McCain have feuded over social issues in the past. Last November, for example, Romney accused McCain of being “disingenuous” on gay marriage. Expect the debate to grow louder and get nastier.

Do you think that McCain was also behind that rediculous story last month that tried to paint Romney as anti illegal immigration? (Romney employs a landscape contractor who had evidently hired illegal immigrants who were interviewed by the Boston Globe.) Seems like the same MO to me, either McCain or DNC. BTW, DNC came out today against Romney's strong stand on Iraq.

McCain is very scared of Romney. His camp had a woman grill Romney in SC a few weeks about being a Mormon. McCain is convinced he lost in 2000 because of Bush being touch (mean) in SC and he is determined not to let it happen again.

McCain is very scared of Romney. His camp had a woman grill Romney in SC a few weeks about being a Mormon. McCain is convinced he lost in 2000 because of Bush being tough(mean) in SC and he is determined not to let it happen again.

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