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search.  live from cpac  CPAC Epilogue: The Cab Ride  Anthony
would advise Romney to go on vacation.  "Mitt Romney, he said,
'I am severe conservative.' What does it mean?"  I'm in the back
of a cab headed for Dulles the morning after CPAC, talking
politics with my driver, Anthony. An Ethiopian immigrant who
came to America twenty years ago, he listens to talk-radio
programs every day throughout his shift and watches cable news
when he gets home. He likes to jump around the dial, get all the
viewpoints. He's upset that the race's most qualified candidate,
Jon Huntsman — a name I hadn't heard uttered throughout the
entirety of CPAC —  had already dropped out of the race. "This
man speaks many languages!" Anthony says at one point, perplexed
as to how this, but one of Huntsman's impressive traits, failed
to impress the GOP electorate. Along with many other political
observers, Anthony is baffled by Romney's description of himself
as a "severely co