In her interview with Katie Couric, Gov. Sarah Palin said he opposed Roe v. Wade because the abortion decision should belong to the states. She called herself a "Federalist in that sense."
Here's a video of Palin saying the U.S. Constitution should be amended, thereby taking away the states' ability to decide this issue for themselves, banning gay marriage.
I don't care what your position is on abortion or gay rights, Palin's intellectual contradiction is appalling. Either you support giving more power to the states to make their own decisions on big issues or you don't. You don't get to pick and choose what issues to make a "Federalist" issue or not.
Of course, I'm not convinced Palin even knows what a Federalist is, or how the term has evolved in meaning over the course of the past 200 years.
Here's the video:
