Your blog posting has set me thinking about the problem of "celebrities" like Palin who happen to have a public forum for what in our opinion becomes a simplistic misrepresentation of our faith in God and how we believe God works in the world. By the way, you made some very good points.  Even the most distinguished theologians, the ones we would prefer be speaking for us, explaining how God participates in our world, would vary widely on this subject.  Is there any way that God involves "himself" in the political activities of the nations of the world?  Christians believe that the closest we can get to knowing the nature of God and God's participation with human beings is by studying and then "accepting" Jesus as God in human form.  Looking and listening to Jesus we see that he worked with individuals, one on one, planting the kingdom of God here on earth.  Jesus said that just like yeast in bread or just like a mustard seed grows into a bushy tree, so the work of God's kingdom spreads from person to person.  Is God voting for McCain or Obama by pressing his will into our minds, thus changing the course of history?  Highly unlikely!  If it were so, the world would already look a whole lot better than it does today.  But Christians do believe that God is in the business of changing US -- how we react and interact with each other.  No matter who is elected, what happens in this world depends on how each of us behaves the day after the voting is over.  Jesus commanded each of us to love and TRY to understand the other guy as much as we love our own opinions and perspectives.  Even when we grieve the bad press that often makes a mockery of Christian faith, we are to realize our call to be even wiser -- more ready to express the essence of our belief.
This morning during my meditation time I read this poem by George MacDonald from Diary of An Old Soul.  I think it applies here.
"Keep me from wrath, let it seem ever so right:
My wrath will never work thy righteousness.
Up, up the hill, to the whiter than snow-shine,
Help me to climb, and dwell in pardon's light.
I must be pure as thou, or even less
Than thy design of me -- therefore incline
My heart to take man's worngs as thou tak'st mine."