Voting For Moral Values

I've been seeing a lot of mention in the news that a huge number of people (20%?; 22%?; 25%?; 40%?) voted for Candidate Bush based on "moral values". Not sure what that means, but hey, polling questions are notoriously opaque.
Stunned Democrats everywhere, checking the sheep's innards, are calling this a sure sign of The End Of Civilization. This is nonsense. If you want a sign that Civilization As We Know It has ended, I ask you to note that at the same time the votes were being counted a music CD was being released under the title "Britney Spear's Greatest Hits". If this little manufact of MTV-meets-pedophilia can emit a product called greatest hits, we are certainly at the End Time.
In any event, having myself stared at the sheep's entrails, I've seen something quite different than the conventional wisdom. First, understand that someone's motive for an action, and the proclaimed motive, may be quite different. In this case (the election I mean, not BS's greatest hits), it seems likely to me that for many voters who cited moral considerations as the basis for their vote, the actual reason was simply that they didn't like John Kerry. Sory John - you're just not cuddly and lovable.
The encouraging thing about all this is that the voters who chose to disguise a bad motive with a good one were at least not so badly misguided as to claim that they voted for the incumbent based on his record on: the war on terror, the war on Iraq, taxes, the economy, the environment, education. They didn't claim to vote for Bush based on his intellectual reach.
On the down side, the number of voters who profess to believe that recognition of same-sex marriage will be more destructive of their own, personal, marriages than will divorce, which is far far more common than gay relationships, is a little disheartening. The boobocracy, as my favorite cynic labelled it, is alive and well, as ever.
But, Be Of Good Cheer, as my parents used to say. Democracy Is On The Move, the President has told us. I believe that when we have exported it all to the Middle East, and none is left for us here, the Middle East will generously return it to us - largely untouched.
Autocracy appears to be the governing principle of the moment. I'm hopeful that the autocrats, being fundamentally flawed, and destuctive in nature, will run out their welcome and be duly swapped out for a more progressive set of governors.
Hopefully in my lifetime.