They were as wrong about Reagan as they were about JFK, Carter and Clinton. Reagan was exactly what the media pretended JFK was – one of the greatest and most powerful presidents in history. He was precisely what the media pretended Carter was: a true evangelical. The media told us over and over Reagan didn't go to church.

What they hid is: Reagan's plan was to do what John Adams and Benjamin Franklin advised: implement biblical principles in government. Naturally the media portrayed Reagan as the resurrection of Nixon.

Unlike the media pretense that JFK was the returning spirit of Lincoln, Reagan was the president closest in spirit to Lincoln. It's not just because both were Republican presidents. Reagan and Lincoln's familiarity with the Bible shaped their administrations, and both preserved America against enormous threats to its survival. Lincoln preserved the union of states from collapsing in the 19th century. And in the 20th century, Reagan preserved America from collapsing after Carter put it into a nosedive and helped Iran start Jihad against America.

Reagan did what his six predecessors couldn't: he ended the biggest foreign threat to the U.S. in the 20th century – the Cold War. He helped create a boom economy and a Great Awakening of the type of evangelical faith that spawned the American Revolution. He won two landslides.

1988: George H. Bush rode in on the coattails of Reagan. Bush was a GOP hybrid, a country club Republican with orthodox Christian sympathies and willing to make deals with the evangelical lobby. In office, he talked about God, Christianity and the New World Order, as if they went together.

1992: The wily Democrats – Bugs Bunny to the GOP Elmer Fudd – offered another faux evangelical, Bill Clinton. Reprising the Carter role as a Bible-believing Southern Baptist, Clinton happened to be the biggest tomcat to sit in the Oval Office ("Acting! Genius!!). No president toted a Bible around publicly more than Clinton. Bush Sr. didn't have a chance against Elmer Gantry.

Ole' Billy used the Good Book as a prop for photographers when the Clintons played Jethro and Ellie May goin' to Sunday mornin' meetin' for all the "hicks in flyover country." Hey. It helped win him reelection. And it gave a shocking insight into the increasing gullibility of U.S. Christians.

Clinton's evangelical posturing did not scare his socialist supporters. Under Clinton, America saw this strange anti-Christical Democrat religion emerging, a religion that offers messiahs, rather than presidents. When his supporters looked at Clinton, they saw the messiah who would deliver, as Barak Obama is preaching: "the kingdom of God on earth." They urged him to use his "bully pulpit" to preach liberal salvation. When Clinton offered Americans a "New Covenant" it wasn't that far from Jesus saying to his disciples at the last supper: this is the new covenant in my blood.

2000: Perhaps nothing says more about who the U.S. voter is than the fact that both George W. Bush and Al Gore opened their campaigns by claiming to be true believers in Jesus Christ. Bush was boldly evangelical, with Rev. Graham a part of his redemption story. Al Gore did a great impression of a black preacher. Of course we now know he's a true believer....in global warming.

2004: George W's bold evangelical talk coupled with his normal-American presence, not to mention the fact that World War III had been declared on America by people the Democrats told us were from a religion of peace, gave him a second term. John Kerry couldn't "believe I'm losing to this guy."'

2008: With the possible exception of Mike Huckabee, the American voter is being offered the kind of candidates they've rejected for the last 50 years – not to mention the kind of candidates who tend to be disasters as presidents.

How come the Republican leadership is unaware their big success story is an evangelical? The oldest president in history was one of the most powerful because he, like Lincoln, actually believed the national motto: In God We Trust. Reagan, like Lincoln, tried to do the will of the "God" referenced on our dollar bill, and that invisible king provided the power.

The two greatest Republicans, Lincoln and Reagan actually trusted God. And crazy as the media insists that belief is, their presidencies are testimonies to the raw power that "superstition" has supplied to America since 1776.