Any republicans out their??????

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I tend Republican just because there really isn't a better choice. I'm not wild about social conservatism but I'm even less wild about magical thinking on government budgets, sanctuary cities, gun bans in urban areas, gutless foreign policy, the 'why solve a problem when you can buy a voting block', etc..

Seems like the 'happy medium' in the middle is neo-conservatism/neo-liberalism which is the worst of both worlds; ie. you get steadily growing government, crony capitalism, a few feigns at solving problems but overall anything that makes its way through congress usually leaves us worse off. It's part of why I've really gotten quite a ways away from politics and have been trying to find ways to light a candle on my own rather than curse the darkness, particularly when the only person I can command or hold accountability for is myself. Panicking over the latest bad legislation, who the IRS is monitoring, which politician or head bureaucrat had all their subpoenaed emails conveniently vanish, etc. would leave me little time to feel well or enjoy life much.

I have an R on my voter registration card.
I tend to vote republican but I see them as usually nothing more than the lesser evil.
Most politicians are self serving douchebags or they wouldn't be in politics.

We just tend to keep our heads down as we're used to being reviled, vilified, straw-manned and despised out here on the interwebs. Not just this forum, but every web discussion board I've ever joined has had a majority of liberal Democrat opinion and very little religious right-leaning Republican thought.

My theory? Most Republicans--especially the rich old white guys--are too busy earning money by engaging in capitalism to spend loads and loads of time surfing the web.

Me, I just don't have the patience to deal with the glaring ignorance and group-think mentality of your average web-Democrat. I get enough of their pap on facebook. I don't enjoy arguing with people who cannot be persuaded so I tend to keep out of political discussions--pretty much everywhere--and religious discussions on the web. You start from a position of most people making incorrect assumptions by identifying as Republican, Christian, white American female and you can't make the slightest dent in the pre-conceived notions that your audience has. You feel like your beating your gums to no avail and soon lose all energy or desire. No matter how many times you repeat your actual point of view, people keep arguing about what they think you believe base on the way liberal think-tanks, cable news networks and/or Saturday Night Live has painted and parodied you.

So usually my response to invitations to get into political or religious discussion on the web is no thank you, been there done that bought the t-shirt and ritually burned it to get the ptsd trauma out of my head.

fwiw you wanted "there" not "their"

I disagree with the philosophy of voting for the lesser of 2 evils. If you won't vote for a third party which better represents your political views because it won't make a difference, by that logic your vote won't make a noticeable difference by going to one of the major parties either.
This attitude just cements them in power further, even if a third party doesn't win if it gains a noticeable percentage of votes it will convince people that alternatives are not impossible.

I don't vote.. I don't believe in it.

Sometimes, I debate political issues on here and imagine "what-if" scenarios of what I would vote for. However, I don't believe in voting and I have only voted once in my life. Never do it again unless they give me a cookie next time.

Convincing people that alternatives are not impossible can be the worst possible outcome, when all it does is split the electorate on one side of the spectrum.

For me it doesn't matter at all because i live in a winner take all state that is overwhelmingly conservative.

hmm I never considered that, it could lead to one dominant party with unchecked power

Independent.

Believe it or not, I've voted for both sides.

Good to be an independent thinker.

I'm not American.

^^^
lucky you.

Yes, I'm starting to think so!

I have envied people who lived in the commonwealth ever since I could remember.

which commonwealth?

NZ/Aus/GB/Canada.

so British commonwealth. I'm super glade to not been born in any of those.