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Cavuto: Have Republicans 'forgotten their past'?

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    Neil looks back at the party of Lincoln

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So I finally finally got around to seeing Steven Spielberg's movie Lincoln any hit out of the -- it hit me forget about Harry Reid gathering -- democratic buddies to see -- slick.

In the congressional auditorium on our dime Republicans -- run to their nearest theater to see it for themselves on there may be then they're gonna see their future.

Looking delay get a first Republican president of remembering their past a time when Republicans were just pro business they were -- people.

A party that came into existence opposing slavery now -- -- to the notion that it's a party able white man.

Think about that a party that had emancipation it is DNA.

Now deemed to political dinosaur and all of a deal -- It doesn't make sense it doesn't make sense that the party that defined itself provide an opportunity overall.

Now -- bested by another party pushing government overall.

Acted that happen.

How -- a party.

Founded by disc -- northern white Protestants and African Americans and under -- -- you had everyone from farmers to factory workers back then.

Become the mishmash it is now.

Watching Lincoln I was reminded about a time when Republicans stood for opportunity for all -- a president risked his very office and trying to get in our constitution.

Forget about what's happened -- our constitution.

Let's have -- there there what's happened to Republicans.

What happened to the party that extolled the benefits of business but not so blindly that -- -- Theodore Roosevelt wasn't afraid -- the abuses of business.

What happens -- that party that was to keep our food safe and our environment clean that could distinguish between regulations that mattered a life.

And of the onslaught of meaningless ones taxi business to death.

-- could discern the difference between a Smart government -- an excessive government that brought us our national parks.

And protected aren't national workers went evident that party that party whose first slogan was free soil -- over -- then.

Now more like well three -- -- other Republicans don't know their future they've forgotten their past and what should be an -- a party that defined itself not by what he could give you.

But the boundary -- opportunities this country could provide -- The Abraham Lincoln I saw in that movie spoke of a time when Republican ideals were to move it.

And -- idealism wasn't a script.

It was their cool.

It was real.

Abraham Lincoln was real forget about Harry Reid trying to show Democrats a movie that provide adolescent -- backed -- How about Republicans wanted on their own and then and then and then.

Maybe just look.

In the mirror.

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