August 09, 2012 01:01 AM UTC

Joe Coors "Buckpedals" Personhood Abortion Ban

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• by: Colorado Pols

A fairly significant story lost in the coverage of President Barack Obama’s campaign stop, and the Mitt Romney campaign’s counter-message shadow bus tour. Electa Draper of the Denver paper reports today that GOP CD-7 candidate Joe Coors, Jr., will not endorse the so-called “Personhood” abortion ban ballot measure this year. Coors’ decision to “respect the voters’ decision” in the case of the “Personhood” abortion ban comes after Coors donated $1,000 to the 2010 campaign in support of that year’s “Personhood” measure.

Unfortunately, Coors’ prior monetary support for “Personhood” can’t be erased simply by refusing to touch it as a congressional candidate. Much like 2010 GOP Senate nominee Ken Buck’s abandonment of “Personhood” after winning the GOP primary, this move will inevitably, and rightly, be characterized as a flip-flop for political expediency. The language that Coors used to flip on this issue, “respecting the voters,” could come back to haunt him as well–does he remember that Colorado voters rejected an “anti-Obamacare” measure that same year?

We’re not saying there was an easy escape route for Coors after he financially backed a polarizing ballot measure that failed by over 70% of the vote. There probably wasn’t.

But Buck didn’t get to shrug this off, and neither should Coors.