Hey, I’m a fan of Palin’s too, but I think you’ve sacrificed logic for a favorable parsing.
You can't be serious.
Palin used the word "but". It's a coordinating conjunction. It was used correctly to describe a contrast between the current ruling and past rulings.
She is comparing this ruling to other rulings and she saying that they are inconsistent.
There is no other logical way to take all of the words that she used and come up with a different meaning. One would have to parse her statement and leave off both the conjunction and everything that follows it, to come up with any other meaning.
The parsing son, is being done by you.
And I don't care less if you are a Palin "fan" or not.