The Runback: You Can't Fix Stupid
It's not a conspiracy, it's just that Gordana Schifanelli and company were too incompetent to submit their paperwork on time.
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The Monday Thought
Much has been made of Gordana Schiffanelli’s disqualification, along with the disqualification of her slate, from the Maryland Republican Party elections.
Several screeds on the Schiffanelli-owned propaganda outlet Shore Times have screamed “Stop the Steal!” in relation to Schifanelli’s disqualification.
Fascist-loving election denier Shekinah Hollingsworth posted this idiotic meme on Facebook in relation to it.
Ironically, I have confirmed that the self-proclaimed Nazi Hollingsworth has registered for the convention, taken time away from her defense of this idiot.
But the fact remains this: Gordana Schifanelli and company missed the deadline for filing their paperwork to run for state party office. This is not a conspiracy, this is not a stolen election, nor is it some grand plan done out of fear. it is merely the product of gross incompetence on behalf of people who have shown themselves to be nothing but grossly incompetent throughout their entire public lives.
Gordana Schifanelli is not qualified to be the Chairman of the Maryland Republican Party any more than a chihuahua is. Prior to this election, she had no record of candidate experience, no record of party leadership, no record of success in any aspect of her life. Her one foray into public life was to help usher in the biggest Republican wipeout in Maryland in a generation.
It is the peak of hilarity for Schifanelli to talk about the failures of others when her place in political life has been full of nothing but failure. So much of a failure that she couldn’t even follow simple paperwork online.
Schifanelli’s record of failure of course should have generated an entire litany of questions. How would she ever file state-mandated paperwork on time? How would she fundraise legally? How would she raise money at all, considering her ticket with Dan Cox couldn’t raise much money and because nobody donates to people who lost by thirty percent?
But no, the people inclined to support a doofus like Schifanelli immediately believe it is a conspiracy because nothing is ever their fault.
What’s worse, however, is that Schifanelli and her slate are outright lying about not knowing when the deadline is.
As Dirk Haire noted, Central Committee members were first made aware of the deadline on October 3rd, something Schifanelli slate member Kate Sullivan has acknowledged publicly. Since Central Committee members were on the Schifanelli ticket, the Schifanelli team had 37 days of notice before the filing deadline.
The Duckpin has also confirmed that meetings were held well in advance of the November election organizing an effort to replace Haire as Republican Party Chairman. Instead of trying to win an election where she herself was on the ballot, Gordana Schifanelli and her team were more concerned with organizing a coup against Maryland Republican Leadership. An effort that failed spectacularly when the bumbling band of boobs couldn’t bother to make sure an email got sent in a timely manner.
It's not a conspiracy, it's just that Gordana Schifanelli and company were too incompetent to submit their paperwork on time. A plot did not cause them to be this f***ing stupid. Schifanelli and her supporters have trotted out dozens of reasons and excuses as to why all of this happened. But if they want to blame anybody for their disqualification, they can blame no one but themselves.