princess kadija will be running her campaign from san francisco, naturally. anyone can run for president. anybody can run. every year, just about everybody does, to a certain extent. several hundred people run. when it comes to actually running an orderly campaign, and doing things like setting up major debates, the major parties have had to deal with this to a certain degree, right? princess kadija is probably not going to make it into the presidential debates this year, no offense intended. more systemically figure out a way to make sure only the candidates with any conceivable viability make the cut and get into the primary debates. in some years, it's a larger number of conceivably viable candidates than in other years. the other cycles, we have had a few viable candidates. in 2008, the democrats thought they would have a pretty good chance of takes the white house after george h.w. bush and dick cheney. a lot of potentially viable democratic contenders. that year, there were as many as eight people on stage on the democratic side, and that included peopl

you don't want ole savior and princess kadija in there. that's like you couldn't get lar daly. if you have to stretch to nine, 10, 11, 12 candidates so you can get ron paul and dennis kucinich and jim gilmore and all these guys in there, basically, the tendency has been to do it, right? that's how our system works. err on the side of inclusion. that's how our system works. until now. because this year, there is a real problem if this is going to continue to be our system. the system cannot hold this year. in the last cycle, 2012, the republican party thought they had a pretty good chance of making barack obama a one-term president. they thought they had a shot to beat him. they did not. part of that they blame on their candidate, mitt romney and the general election campaign that mitt romney ran. but the party believes they had a flawed process in 2012 that led to choosing their nominee and that hurt the republican party's chances overall of beating president obama no matter who they chose. specifically, they think they had too many debates in 2012. the republican primary in 20