Chait analyzes some awkward rhetoric from Karl Rove and Jennifer Rubin:
How to steer the voters away from the guy who makes their right-wing hearts flutter, and toward the electable guy? … If you're a Republican opinion leader, you want to promote Romney over Perry. At the same time, you have to account for the possibility that Perry might win the nomination anyway, which means that you can't say anything that could be used against him in the general election. You need to gently suggest to Republicans that Perry is too crazy to be elected president, without suggesting to swing voters that he's too crazy to be elected president.
The Dish 