Young Republicans president hopes for end of financial crisis
Students stand on both sides of aisle
Larry Burge
Issue date: 9/15/08 Section: News
The Grand Old Party lives on at the UA campus through the efforts of Rachael Davis, the UA College Republicans chair.
Davis is a fiscal conservative double-majoring in political science and Spanish and minoring in Latin American studies. She plans to graduate in May 2009.
"I have a lot of respect for any college age student who has a political opinion, even if I don't agree with them," Davis said. "It lets me know they care about what's going on in their world. That's how you become a responsible citizen."
Davis grew up in Greenbrier, a small town north of Conway with a population of about 3,000. "I can definitely associate with Gov. Sarah Palin," she said.
Palin is the Republican vice president nominee running with Sen. John McCain R-Arizona for the presidential election.
"The only thing that is going to save our democracy is to get back to what our founding fathers believed," she said."Th1only way for a democracy to survive and be a real democracy is for its citizens to become educated, for them to take part in the process. This is the government of the people. When many living in our society don't bother to vote. That's not a democracy.
"The sad thing is, especially my generation in my age group, they don't seem to care that 70 percent of the nation is making our decisions for us," she said.
"My number one reason for supporting the Republican candidates is that I am a fiscal conservative," Davis said.
The traditional Republican Party supports a platform with supply-side fiscal policies and social conservative values. They advocate less governmental spending to lower the federal debt, smaller government, fewer earmarks and less entitlement programs attached to spending bills, along with lower tax rates.
"Both my parents are CPA's [certified public accounts], so I have a good understanding of how the IRS works. From that understanding, I believe in a limited government. Because a business is always going to be run better in private hands than the government can do it," she said.
Davis is a fiscal conservative double-majoring in political science and Spanish and minoring in Latin American studies. She plans to graduate in May 2009.
"I have a lot of respect for any college age student who has a political opinion, even if I don't agree with them," Davis said. "It lets me know they care about what's going on in their world. That's how you become a responsible citizen."
Davis grew up in Greenbrier, a small town north of Conway with a population of about 3,000. "I can definitely associate with Gov. Sarah Palin," she said.
Palin is the Republican vice president nominee running with Sen. John McCain R-Arizona for the presidential election.
"The only thing that is going to save our democracy is to get back to what our founding fathers believed," she said."Th1only way for a democracy to survive and be a real democracy is for its citizens to become educated, for them to take part in the process. This is the government of the people. When many living in our society don't bother to vote. That's not a democracy.
"The sad thing is, especially my generation in my age group, they don't seem to care that 70 percent of the nation is making our decisions for us," she said.
"My number one reason for supporting the Republican candidates is that I am a fiscal conservative," Davis said.
The traditional Republican Party supports a platform with supply-side fiscal policies and social conservative values. They advocate less governmental spending to lower the federal debt, smaller government, fewer earmarks and less entitlement programs attached to spending bills, along with lower tax rates.
"Both my parents are CPA's [certified public accounts], so I have a good understanding of how the IRS works. From that understanding, I believe in a limited government. Because a business is always going to be run better in private hands than the government can do it," she said.
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