(CNN) -- Rush Limbaugh brought a cheering crowd to its feet several times Saturday at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington as he called on fellow conservatives to take back the country. Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh energizes crowd of supporters in CPAC keynote speech. "We conservatives have not done a good enough job of just laying out basically who we are, because we make the mistake of assuming that people know. What they know is largely incorrect, based on the way we're portrayed in pop culture, in the drive-by media, by the Democrat party," the conservative talk show host told a mostly young crowd of energized supporters.
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"We want every American to be the best he or she chooses to be," he says
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Limbaugh says conservatives need to choose right candidate to take back nation
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He accuses President Obama of inspiring fear in Americans to push his agenda
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Opponents had put out political ad implying Limbaugh was de facto head of GOP
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