PeRino is a Bush Family surrogate. The GOPe had to offer her something to keep her on the plantation now that they support Rubio/Kasich instead of Jeb.
If you want to know what the inside-the-beltway GOPe/Ruling Class are thinking just watch Dana PeRino on FNC. She is one of their #1 mouthpieces.
You got that exactly right. I will never forget the day when Trump first ascended to top of polls, the normally placid PeRino was literally frothing at mouth, cursing Trump, on the show The Five.