If you can find Krauthammer saying he was wrong in 1984 I’ll be impressed.
I’ve never seen it yet and doubt it exists. He just lets people assume whatever they want.
I'm not claiming that everything Krauthammer says or does is conservative. But he clearly does not consider himself a liberal, and most liberals definitely consider him a conservative.
I doubt more than few people considered to be conservatives could satisfy the desires of many other conservatives. There are a number of people who write for conservative mags like National Review who've written or made comments I don't consider as being conservative. But I don't consider those people to be liberals. I consider them to be conservatives with a few erroneous beliefs.
If you consider somebody a liberal because out of twenty positions considered conservative stands that person only believes in eighteen or nineteen, then I don't know what to say.
I've watched Krauthammer on FOX Special Report over the years relentlessly hammer Obama on a great variety of issues. Rarely have I heard him agree with Obama on anything. Liberals simply don't say the things about Obama (or many other liberals) Krauthammer says about him.