Democratic challenger Walter Mondale. During the campaign Kondracke praised Reagan for economic recovery and his handling of the Cold War, but called Reaganism "an amalgam of tactics, public relations, virulent anti-Sovietism, and institutionalized selfishness that will do nothing to deal with real-world economic and geopolitical realities" and predicted that Reagan would cause "depression, social chaos, and war" if reelected. In a newspaper column published in September 1985, Kondracke wrote that more Republicans should be in favor of emergency contraception and civil unions for same-sex couples, and Republicans should stop relying on "gay-bashing" to win elections. In 1991, Kondracke began serving as executive editor of Roll Call, retiring in 2011. During this time he wrote a twice-weekly column in Roll Call ("Pennsylvania Avenue") that was syndicated by Newspaper Enterprise Association, part of United Media. After stepping down as executive editor he remained with Roll Call as contributing editor. In October 1998, Kondracke began co-hosting his own television series, The Beltway Boys, with Fred Barnes, on the Fox News Channel. He was also a regular nightly contributor to Special Report with Brit Hume on the same network. In 2010, he became the main interviewer for the Jack Kemp Foundation's Oral History Project, performing more than 100 interviews with teammates, colleagues, staff members and family of the late Representative, presidential and vice-presidential candidate and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Kondracke held the Jack Kemp Chair in Political Economy in the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress from September 2011 to June 2012, where he researched and wrote about "the late Jack Kemp's congressional career, his leadership role during the Reagan Era, his presidential campaign and his influence on the Republican Party and the nation". In the 1996 science fiction film Independence Day, Kondracke appears at the beginning of the movie on The McLaughlin Group, speaking about the ineffectual leadership of President Thomas J. Whitmore (Bill Pullman) and saying, "Leadership as a pilot in the Gulf War has no relationship to political leadership. It's a different animal." Kondracke also appeared in the 1993 film Dave. For his correct prediction of the Democratic takeover of Congress he won The Washington Posts Crystal Ball Tournament of Champions Award in 2006. Kondracke appeared on C-SPAN in July 2017, calling for a revival of the "political center" in America. Personal life In 1967, Kondracke married Millicent Martinez, a half Jewish, half Mexican liberal activist.