(CNN) For a presidential candidate who believes Washington "needs to drink more," Sen. Lindsey Graham got a good head start at CNN's Politics on Tap event Tuesday.

Graham got behind the bar, serving up beers in downtown Boulder, Colorado -- the site of Wednesday's Republican debate -- before sitting down with CNN Chief Political Correspondent Dana Bash.

The setting was so informal, in fact, that Bash got Graham to play a popular bar game she sanitized as "date, marry, or make disappear forever," with Hillary Clinton, Carly Fiorina, and Sarah Palin as his choices.

Graham conceded two of the three: He would date Sarah Palin -- "we'll go hunting on our first date" -- and marry Carly Fiorina -- "'cause she's rich; she could keep me in the life I'm accustomed to." But, Graham wouldn't quite go so far as to say he would make Hillary Clinton disappear forever.

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