Sniffin' Palin

A coupla weeks somebody, maybe Matt Yglesias, wondered why it's okay for political candidates to accept financial contributions from people who aren't their constituents. Now I wonder why it's seemingly okay for someone from a state 3000 miles away to endorse a candidate in a New York congressional race. Sarah Palin is somebody who didn't like the bothersome work of actually governing but has a unique amount of influence over a segment of the entire US population, who will now be sending checks from all over the country to a guy they couldn't pick out of a lineup and whom will not really be held accountable in any way by them if elected. Strange.