Having done the dirty work, Ferraro is "stepping down" from Clinton campaign

You know how the traditional media took awhile to fully grasp that Bush lied about going to war? I think many Democrats have had the same problem trying to grasp the reality of the Clinton's race-baiting campaign. We've seen example after example -- starting with Billy Shaheen in New Hampshire, Bill Clinton in South Carolina, even Hillary's weird answers on "60 Minutes" to name a few. People kept thinking, these are the Clintons, it can't be true. Anyone who broached it was slapped down. In December, even after the Shaheen incident and comments by Mark Penn, pundit (and former Clinton staffer) David Gergen said on CNN "I think it is unfair to say that they're playing the race card." Still unfair? Because it's true. And, it's sickening.

The Ferraro episode is just the latest and clearest evidence. Ferraro has been in the game for a long time. She gets it. She knows how the media operates. She knows the impact of her words. She is, after all, a Fox News consultant with her own Fox News bio. The Clinton campaign also knew exactly what was happening. They didn't stop it. And, it's hard to imagine Howard Wolfson and his crew couldn't rein in Ferraro.

This afternoon, Ferraro told Clinton she is "stepping down" from the campaign.

Markos explains the reality:

This is what the Clinton campaign is reduced to. Taking a candidate who has inspired hope and passion, and working overtime to turn him into the "black candidate" even though she has no hope of winning the nomination absent a coup by super delegate. Now there's a legacy for Clinton. Congrats to her on pulling that one off.

And it's clear as day, given their refusal to ask for Ferraro's resignation, that the Clinton campaign is as complicit and pleased with Ferraro's words as they are with her media strategy.

He's right. And, it's so disturbing, I'm sure many Democrats still can't comprehend it.

Before the announcement that Ferraro quit, Cafferty weighed in, too. He also noted the complicity of the Clinton campaign:

Clinton won't win the most pledged delegates and she won't have the most votes cast. Every day, the nomination slips further out of her grasp, which makes the Clinton campaign act more desperate. The race-baiting is beyond desperate.

What Clinton is doing now is shaping her legacy -- and it's shaping up to be an ugly legacy. Her supporters need to step in and save Hillary from her campaign.