SOME PEOPLE WILL SAY THIS IS SELF-INTERESTED:

GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo. — Colorado Republican Senate hopeful Pete Coors yesterday criticized the legal drinking age, chiding the federal government for coercing states into raising the age limit from 18 to 21.

“We got along fine for years with the 18-year-old drinking age,” the former CEO of the Coors Brewing Co. told an audience of about 200 people at a candidates’ debate here. “We’re criminalizing our young people.”

But I’m not a brewing magnate, and I agree! As I’ve written elsewhere, the increase in the drinking age — which Liddy Dole, to her shame, boasts of “spearheading” — was a dumb and unfair idea. If Republicans are serious about federalism, as Dole certainly isn’t, they’ll work to repeal it. Congratulations to Coors for raising the subject.

UPDATE: More thoughts here.