John McCain YouTube Account Ditched 2008 Attack On Mitt Romney (VIDEO)

Mitt Romney got a boost from Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Wednesday afternoon, when the Arizona Republican joined Romney on stage in New Hampshire and endorsed the former governor of Massachusetts in his bid for the White House.

"I am really here for one reason, and one reason only," the 75-year-old senator told the crowd, according to a video from The Washington Post. "And that is to make sure that we make Mitt Romney the next president of the United States of America."

But McCain hasn't always rooted for Romney. The two were bitter rivals in the fight for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, which McCain, of course, ultimately won.

Four years ago, then-candidate McCain released an attack ad titled "A Tale of Two Mitts," a mashup of clips that portrayed Romney as a flip-flopper on the issues of abortion, gun rights and even his own political identity. The ad was approved by John McCain and funded by his campaign.

According to Politico, Romney in the past has called McCain a "creature of Washington" and has said his views are "out of the mainstream, at least in my view, of conservative Republican thought."

McCain and Romney may be eager for us to erase their past rivalry from our memories. BuzzFeed reports that the McCain camp has removed the video from the senator's YouTube account.

Indeed, the video, available below, is nowhere to be found on McCain's robust 450+ video YouTube channel, and when a user tries to watch the clip on a Washington Post article from 2008, the video doesn't work and a notice appears indicating that it "has been removed by the user."

According to YouTomb, a research project from MIT that "investigate[s] what kind of videos are subject to takedown notices due to allegations of copyright infringement," "A Tale of Two Mitts" was removed on December 25, 2009.

Perhaps McCain and Romney have been planning for this day for over two years.

WATCH: A Tale Of Two Mitts:

Comments

[albant]

04:09 PM on 01/05/2012

"John McCain YouTube Account Ditched 2008 Attack On Mitt Romney "

It is a shame he didn't do the same with HIS attacks with napalm to VietNam civilians.

[BBQribsNOnapkin]

02:54 PM on 01/05/2012

The Republican nominee is going to be pummeled by Obama in the 2012 Presidential election. The party has become extremist and the only thing they stand for anymore is Oligarchy.

They'll inevitably capture votes because there is still a hearty portion of the population who are pridefully deficient in the more complex, higher level cognitive skills required to understand the inter-working subtleties and nuances that shape the direction of our country (there's always deviation from the mean and despite everyone's belief they are "a little above average", they are not) but that wont be enough.

The party of the lowest common denominator, in catering to fanaticism/extremism, has tried to divide itself by zero. Anybody who's completed grade school knows that doesn't work, and that's probably why they don't.

[MissileTech]

02:15 PM on 01/05/2012

I just thought about how much money the Obama campign will save because there is no need to develop new commercials.

[masola81]

02:03 PM on 01/05/2012

Romney was a joke then and he's a joke now. Just ask any Massachusetts resident who was here when he was Governor. He was a complete and utter joke and used his term in office not to govern the state, but to run for President. Ask any of us who live here what he was like. We will give you the absolute straight scoop.

[mamadeus]

06:34 PM on 05/07/2012

Thanks brother, keep spreading the word.

[Blackwing]

01:47 PM on 01/05/2012

I don't understand why the conservative Republicans abandoned Herman Cain. Even with his long list of lovers and other adventures into Kookville, he's still better than these other clowns (at providing humor and entertainment). Come on conservatives, fire up the Cain Train.

[RCnDC]

01:36 PM on 01/05/2012

Just like with Santorum's comments about black people that were caught on video, romney will deny he said it... These people are down right pathological...

[mistlesuede]

01:26 PM on 01/05/2012

LMAO! Wow, finally I can say I've seen something that McCain did well. This commercial.

[Geo Bruno]

01:03 PM on 01/05/2012

Sounds like Mittens must have promised him his own planet

[Geo Bruno]

01:02 PM on 01/05/2012

Someone bearing false witness

[Ron Booth]

12:34 PM on 01/05/2012

Isn't it just so special that Mitt 'officially' accepted Johnny's endorsement?

Mitt would have done better if he had rejected the endorsement pointing out the 'baseless' that McCain had launched against him and promised not to engage in those sort of twisted attacks against his own opponents and declared American's sick and tired of 'slash and burn politics'. Of course that would have been a challenge for Mitt to pull off since he is after all the quintessential flip-flopper extraordinaire, having long since stripped John Kerry of the title.

[AirForce Vet]

12:17 PM on 01/05/2012

This is a meeting of the mindless.

[Von Laue]

12:03 PM on 01/05/2012

Who better to judge flip-flopping than the King of Flip Flopping, John McCain?

[davedave]

11:57 AM on 01/05/2012

honor among prostitutes?

[stopnlisten]

11:51 AM on 01/05/2012

This too will pass...like a kidney stone!

[Bichion]

11:49 AM on 01/05/2012

Man by the end of the clown circus, Obama will not have to spend a dime on ads. Utube is filled with free ads for the President to use against which ever Bozo that gets the job of getting smashed by him!!! Thanks Repubikkkans for providing all the ammo in the world to use against your on clown!!! OBAMA 2012-USARMY 82-92