The American Spectator

OCPatriot| 10.28.08 @ 11:31PM

It usually takes a while for an elected official to feel a sense of entitlement, and that’s when the lines between accepting gifts in exchange for favors begins to blur. A system that basically keeps a Senator campaigning for most of his career naturally gravitates into a “you give me a contribution and I give you what you want.” Senators who have been there for a while get to like the stature, the perks, and therefore they start to become foggy about what going on a junket with an important constituent, like Keating, can mean in terms of what is wanted from them. Ted Stevens had probably been in office too long; his anger at his trial seemed too real. What worries me most is that Sarah Palin seems to have developed that sense of entitlement early in the game.