A few days ago, Vyan was wondering if FOX News was signaling a conservative retreat and/or pivot away from anti-Obamacare attacks to more profitable lines of demagoguery.
Can't vouch for FOX, but one of the biggest conservative dark-money groups, the "Center to Protect Patient Rights", made that pivot some time ago, as it now calls itself "American Encore".
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If you live in a state with a Democratic Senator that's up for re-election, you've probably started seeing ads like this one recently:
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Those ads are coming from the conservative dark-money group American Encore, formerly the Center to Protect Patient Rights, or CPPR for short. And in Minnesota, at least, the purpose of these ads, as Slate's David Weigel points out, is to be used with questionable custom-designed conservative polls to panic Democratic donors into responding in kind and wasting their money on safe races (such as Al Franken's) instead of putting their cash in those Senate races where it would do the most good.
But what's most interesting to me is that the ads don't say diddly-squat about what up to now has been the biggest screeching point of the conservative screech chamber: Their distorted funhouse-mirror vision of Obamacare.
Just as CPPR changed its name American Encore to reflect its pivot away from trying to demonize Obamacare, their attack ads have now pivoted away from Obamacare to their attempt to pretend that reining in dark-money groups like CPPR (which gave over $112 million to various like-minded groups during the 2012 election cycle) is somehow evil.