Tea Party leader: Birth-control fight will ‘invigorate’ base

{mosads}Meckler also praised presumptive Republican front-runner Mitt Romney for emphasizing his conservative bona fides while speaking last Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference, despite concerns from some Tea Party activists that the former Massachusetts governor might not be authentic enough in his conservative views.

“I do think he’s striking the right tone,” Meckler said. “This is what people want to hear. They want to hear him speaking the language of conservatives; they want something to hold him to in 2012.”

Meckler went on to say that while Romney might not be winning over skeptics, he was making promises that he would have to be accountable for if he were to win the presidency.

“I don’t think anybody’s convinced. I don’t think anybody’s looking to be convinced,” Meckler said. “I think people are listening, they’re going to take stock of this, they’re going to keep it in the back of their mind when they go to the polls, and again, they’re going to hold people accountable after they’ve been elected.”