Before getting to the surprising Bush comment, here's the background. This AP article concerns Pete Coors and Ken Salazar and their race for Colorado's open Senate seat. A few eyebrow raisers-- Republican Coors opposes the death penalty while Salazar, (not suprisingly for an Attorney General,) favors it. Coors also suggested recently that "Congress might have balked at authorizing war in Iraq "given what we know today."

Coors has stumped with Bush on most if not all of his Colorado visits. Bush has supported Coors. So what does Bush have to say about Coor's non-supportive war statement?

President Bush brushed off the comment as he stumped for Coors the next day, saying he would be able to count on the beer executive "on the big issues."

What's a bigger issue than Iraq to American voters? To the soldiers and their families? Maybe Bush thinks opposition to gay marriage, which Coors supports him on, is a bigger issue than Iraq?