John McCain, who likes to decry negative campaigning, has dropped a less-than-positive mailer in South Carolina attacking Mitt Romney on a number of fronts. The mailer is pretty impressive -- not only does it fault Romney for "taxpaper funded abortions" and for raising taxes by "$700 million," it also manages to hit Hillary Clinton for allegedly wanting to build Woodstock Museum "on the site of the 1969 music festival," which McCain opposed.

Last I checked, Woodstock, N.Y., is roughly 600 miles from South Carolina, and Hillary isn't a candidate in the South Carolina GOP primary. But each GOP candidate is scouring his record for anything that can be presented as proof that he stood up to Hillary about something at some point, and hence that he's the only one who can beat her in a general election.

Curiously, the mailer also hits Romney for his insufficient enthusiasm for Bush's tax cuts -- which McCain himself voted against. Click on the images to enlarge:

The McCain campaign, however, is denying that this is an attack mailer, claiming instead that the piece represents a defensive move in response to this Romney mailer that hit McCain on taxes: