I agree with this, also. In fact, I mentioned this yesterday in another thread:
The media and the Democrats are intentionally making their defeat a "religious" issue because it allows them to take the moral high-ground...as they battle what they see as the forces of bigotry and hatred. While I have no doubt that "values" helped Bush in this election, the Liberals are exaggerating this effect, by specifically making it a "religious" based issue.
As Burnbaum and Krauthammer pointed out, the percentage of Evangelics that voted in this election is not that significantly different than what they voted in 2000. While the polls may have indicated a greater percentage voting on moral issues, the polls were skewed to reflect this, as certain categories were broken down and others weren't. When the Iraq war AND terrorism are taken together (rather than seperately)...along with jobs AND the economy, these issues end up with a significant majority of the votes.
The Democrats are doing to religious people in 2004, exactly what they did to "angry" White Males in 1994; they are making an excuse for their failure by blaming it on what they percieve as a bigoted segment of the Republican Party...and they are doing this specifically so they can look like the morally superior party. What Democrats still don't understand, is that you don't have to be religious to hold moral values. They also dont understand that moral values encompasses far more than just abortion and Gay rights, which are the two specific issues they are using so they can label "Republicans" anti-women, homophobes. They still don't get it.