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We could call it a flip flop if Sarah Palin was intelligent enough to understand that she has contradicted herself.

In her latest interview, Katie Couric asked Palin about Roe v. Wade, the court case that established the unconstitutionality of state bans on abortion. “Why, in your view, is Roe v. Wade a bad decision?” Kouric asked. “I think it should be a states’ issue not a federal government-mandated, mandating yes or no on such an important issue,” Palin answered.

Think about what Sarah Palin is claiming in this statement. She is saying that Roe v. Wade should not have been decided by the Supreme Court because abortion is an important issue. Sarah Palin is saying that the Supreme Court should only be allowed to make judicial rulings on unimportant issues.

There’s more. In a follow-up question, Couric asked Palin, “Do you think there’s an inherent right to privacy in the Constitution?” Palin answered, “I do. Yeah, I do.”

Couric tried to make sure that Sarah Palin understood the implications of her question: “The cornerstone of Roe v. Wade,” Couric continued.

“I do,” Palin repeated.

Anyone who has paid any serious attention to the issues of the Roe v. Wade decision knows that the claim of a right to privacy in the Constitution is at the heart of the matter. The right to privacy is the central justification for the claim that state abortion bans are unconstitutional. How could Sarah Palin not know that?

The only way that Sarah Palin’s comments could be regarded as consistent in any way is if Palin were trying to claim that, although state bans on abortion are unconstitutional because of the right to privacy, the Supreme Court shouldn’t have had the right to supercede state courts, because the issue is important.

The implication of this bizarre legal perspective is that, if Palin’s ideas were followed, state legislatures would have the right to overrule the Constitution of the United States of America. If Sarah Palin got her way, the United States of America as a nation would cease to exist, transformed into a loosely associated assembly of 50 nations, each one doing its own thing.

Maybe Sarah Palin really is a member of the Alaska Secessionist Party after all.