worse. "the catalogue of sins we believe the president has committed is too long to recapitulate here." but krauthammer tells me he privately wanted reagan to beat his old boss, walter mondale. >> but i had worked for mondale in 1980. i liked him and had respect for him. and as a personal matter, there's a kind of a matter of honor. i didn't want to vote against a man for whom i had respect and affection. >> so you have a vote -- reagan or mondale. >> that's the only presidential election where i left that line blank. >> left it blank? >> but if i had been, you know, the swing vote, i would have obviously have voted for reagan. >> it was a turning point in krauthammer's transition from the political left to the political right. >> and just a few months after the election, i wrote something called "the reagan doctrine." >> it was a time magazine column, and it was provocative. for awhile krauthammer had praised reagan on a number of foreign policy issues.
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