Perhaps I should amend what I said to "a perception that they filled their agenda".
They didn't ban abortion because they can't. But they got a lot of it de-funded, etc. They got absitnence into the schools, they got faith-based initiatives, etc. Perhaps those are all small potatos compared to immigration and other things, but they were in the press a lot. As for the schools, I mostly didn't see socons trying to abolish the department of Ed as much as try to take it over for their own purposes.
The really hard core conservative Christians don't want the Federal government taking over public education. Many of them have so little trust of government at any level that they choose to home-school. I'm afraid you're assuming that G.W. Bush is representative of Christian conservatives. I can remember when Jeffrey Hart said W wasn't a conservative, but a Christian socialist, and there was a storm of protest and abuse here on FR. Now I don't think there are many Bushbots left. Bush looks good only by comparison with the Demons, and as Gingrich said, we can't win any more just by being "not as bad" as the other party. That's one reason I'm against Rudy. He's more of the same...not "one of ours", but we're supposed to swallow him because he's a slower poison than Hillary.