Chuck, the RNC lost the election by being Democrat light, just another way of saying RINO. I certainly did not vote for Obama, not because I liked Romney, who is a RINO and Democrat light, but simply because I was well aware of what Obama believes and does and where his loyalties are firmly placed. Obama is left wing big time with loyalties firmly rooted and planted in the muslim religion and looking for a one world government under sharia law, in other words, a caliphate. Our Declaration OF Independence and U.S. Constitution by which we are governed in the U.S. of A. cannot coexist with a caliphate, because they are diametrically opposing ideas. The United States of America was established as a Constitutional Republic, not a democracy. A true democracy is MOB rule, as I'm sure you are aware. Chuck, those in the Tea Party saw that Mitt Romney was and still is a big government liberal. Romney and Obama are just varying shades of the same big government liberal party. The RNC shot themselves in the head when it was decided that Romney was the chosen candidate. There are very many people who are leaving the Republican party because it has become very, very liberal, promoting big government, and each election cycle it is becoming harder to see any difference between the D's and R's. From where I sit, the Tea Party appears to be the party to which we should migrate.