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‚Äôs newly formed campaign team into overdrive, prompting the former Massachusetts governor to distance himself from the socially liberal views he espoused in 1994. Romney‚Äôs campaign produced its own YouTube video — taped during an appearance yesterday on Instapundit‚Äôs ‚ÄúThe Glenn and Helen Show.‚Äù

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.