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Bartlett is certainly not the first longtime conservative or administration insider to get blackballed for speaking out against the administration.

I'm kind of surprised that Bartlett is that surprised.

And I'm honestly saying this without sarcasm, are there any examples of someone on the other side of the isle writing something like "Paying the horrible price for the Clinton years" and still having an official seat at the table?

The closest I can come up with is Steph.

I don't know a lot about Bartlett.  I do know that Pat Buchanan was once a cabinet level Reaganite as well, and he kind of wandered off into uncharted territory long before Bush was elected.  Another Reagan-man is running for senator in VA as a Democrat.  Both probably insist they're keeping true to their beliefs and the party has changed, not them (a la Zell Miller), but I'm not sure most would agree with them.

The Democrats love those type of guys, just ask Joe Lieberman.

He didnt think there would be a backlash?

But the publicity and his new martyred status, should help him sell lots of books.

There may be a bit more to the story than the Times is sharing. It may take some time to research. It may be found with about an hour's worth of serious looking and reading. It may be done faster by reading Bartlett's columns from 2002 on, and working your way through what other conservatives were saying about him, and what the Times has been saying about him for two or three years. It may be that I expect pigs to fly before you or your less masochistic co-idealists actually research this point.

And no, I'm not helping you with this one.

If he's anti-Bush, his motives are pure and he's clean as a whistle.

I think you meant "ousted", not "outed".  Unless you know something else....