Former Ronald Reagan adviser Bruce Bartlett had more than a few choice words for the modern day Conservative party and none of them were good. DKos: Last week at CPAC potential Republican candidates were invoking President Ronald Reagan ad-nauseam. Ed Schultz asked Bruce Bartlett, former adviser to Reagan, how would Reagan have been treated at CPAC. "I think he probably would be booed out of the crowd," Bruce Bartlett said.