Perhaps learning from George Allen’s experience, Mitt Romney moved quickly yesterday to try to prevent a YouTube video of his 1994 debate with Ted Kennedy from becoming the next “macaca”:

A video recording of former Governor Mitt Romney expressing liberal views became an Internet sensation in the political world yesterday, prompting Romney to call a conservative webcast to say that he has “grown a bit wiser” in the past 13 years.

…The five-minute clip from an October 1994 debate against Senator Edward M. Kennedy shows Romney endorsing a series of liberal viewpoints and includes statements of support for abortion rights and gay rights. The clip was viewed more than 12,000 times on Youtube.com yesterday by 10 p.m.

Last night, Romney called in to the conservative Internet broadcast “The Glenn and Helen Show” to react to the distribution of what his presidential exploratory committee called “ancient footage.”

But if you want real entertainment, don’t miss Mitt TV, where the first clip begins with this cheesy movie preview-style voiceover:

The great American story. It’s about overcoming great obstacles. It’s about finding the future and seizing it. It’s about turning around lives. This is the story of Governor Mitt Romney these past four years. And this is how it started…

(Personally, I would have opened with “In a world where there are no Republican presidents from Massachusetts…”)