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RUSH: Ohio. This is Todd. Great to have you here, sir. Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. This is awesome to be able to talk to you. Mega dittos from an Army dad from the front lines of McCain-Palin rally in Lebanon, Ohio. I just came from the rally, and it was just off the hook. Everyone was just stoked the whole time. And they\u2019re talking about ‘drill here, drill now;\u2019 talking about we could win in Iraq — which is just so important to me — and then when he goes up and says he\u2019s going to shake up Washington? I mean, you believe him. You look at him, and it\u2019s like, yeah, he… You know, all these years, I mean some Republicans have been sort of like, you know, ‘What\u2019s he doing in Washington?\u2019 But when you see him up on the stand there and he\u2019s saying, ‘Hey, we\u2019re going to go shake up Washington, you just believe it.\u2019 You know he\u2019s going to go in there and he\u2019s going to make some changes and that\u2019s just awesome. You know?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me ask you a question about that, and in the process ask everyone in the audience about this. You bought it. Here\u2019s McCain talking about it, he and Palin are going to go ‘shake up Washington.\u2019 McCain has been in Washington 30 years. His party has been in charge of Washington for many of the last eight years, from the White House, to the House. They lost the House in 2006; they\u2019ve gone back and forth on the Senate. How hard a sell do you think it was — or maybe I guess it wasn\u2019t because you believed it. But this, to me, represents sort of a challenge McCain has, because he could shake up Washington but he\u2019s a member of a party that kind of botched Washington. Now, he is a maverick. He is a renegade. He has run against his party on things. That\u2019s probably how he\u2019s going to finesse this if he\u2019s asked about it at some point.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, you know, when you\u2019re in Washington you have to make compromises and you have to be — you know, you have to make decisions on what you have in front of you as well. I think what it is is these years when Republicans haven\u2019t maybe been totally in line with what he\u2019s doing, maybe there were things going on that, you know, he was doing everything he could to get as far as he could in a conservative way. Either way about it, there\u2019s no question that even on the Republicans things need to be shaked (sic) up. These earmarks need to go.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, Todd, I\u2019m glad you went to this thing. You sound genuinely excited about it. But you are demonstrating — another great thing, by the way. Do not take this the wrong way. This is not criticism. This guy — Todd from Ohio — probably represents a whole lot of you in this country and in this audience, and that is the selection of Sarah Palin has totally changed your outlook on McCain. You now are willing to give McCain the benefit of the doubt, whereas prior to this (laughing) when it came to, rock-ribbed conservatives, it was ‘hold your nose and pray.\u2019 Now, it\u2019s not just because he made the choice — not because he had the foresight and the guts to make the choice — but she\u2019s out there actually saying some great things about him in ways that people haven\u2019t, and in a way he will not talk about himself. <\/p>\n

One other thing before we go to the break. I\u2019m not trying to be cynical. I\u2019m trying to realistic. I\u2019m 57 years old. I\u2019ve been paying attention to presidential elections since I was nine. That was Kennedy-Nixon in 1960. Every year, every four years, every presidential race, I don\u2019t care who it is, ‘I\u2019m gonna shake up Washington! We\u2019re going to get in there, we\u2019re going to get some outsiders in there and we\u2019re going to rip the place apart.\u2019 It never happens. Well, it did happen with Reagan. What needs to happen — you know, Washington, of course needs to be shaken up, but it is what it is, it\u2019s a political town and it\u2019s big. What needs to happen is we just need somebody, a rock-ribbed conservative, running the place; willing to take on the entrenched liberal bureaucrats in all of these agencies, all over town — from CIA to State or wherever. Yeah, I\u2019m all for shaking up Washington, but not in how it\u2019s presented in a political campaign. I want to shake up Washington by getting as many liberals out of there as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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