affection. you had a vote reagan and mondale. that was the only election i left that line blank. if i had been the swing vote i would have voted for reagan. it was a turning point in krauthammer s transition from the political left to the political right. a few months after i wrote something called the reagan doctrine. it was a time magazine column. for a while he praised him on a number of policy issues, he was crediting him with a break through insight that changed the calculus of the cold war. i realized what reagan had done without a grand master plan was to challenge what bresh neve have done. whenever we take over a country it is ours. all of a sudden what reagan had done was to challenge that and say no. y we don t get to keep what you have got. we are going to challenge your