You are correct. Schieffer isn’t jumping ship. He’s part of an MSM ‘intervention’. Tapper did a similar thing the other day. They’re trying to snap Obama and his enablers out of their party-and-fund-raise daze and get them to address the problems. Schieffer, Tapper and a couple of other less moonbatty MSMers see the writing on the wall, and it scares them witless. They want the ‘light-worker to pull out of his tailspin and turn it around before Nov ‘12. Ain’t gonna happen, but that is the motivation.
How stupid does one have to be to still be rooting for that team? It's like they are whacking themselves on the head with a hammer saying, "Marx assured me this doesn't hurt...maybe this time it won't - ouch!"