One of the few concrete functions of the Vice President once elected, is to serve as a more extreme alternative to the political positions of the President.  That way, nobody opposed to the President&#x27;s platform can assassinate the President in the hopes of killing that platform, because it will only be replaced with a worse version.<p>This is not the case in an across-the-aisle Presidency.  There are lots of Paul supporters who would like to see Sanders dead, and a whole bunch of them have guns and are fond of out-of-the-box thinking about their liberty.  I spent a few months participating in online communities associated with Ron Paul back in 2007;  It was enlightening, though it left me feeling a little soiled.