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's platform can assassinate the President in the hopes of killing that platform, because it will only be replaced with a worse version.

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.

The broader problem is that the Vice President has no real power. You can't balance a Presidency with an across-the-aisle candidate because the Vice President can't meaningfully do anything without the President's assent.

The interesting thing is if the Democrats nominate Sanders and the Republicans nominate Paul.

> The interesting thing is if the Democrats nominate Sanders and the Republicans nominate Paul.

Interesting, if only due to its impossibility.

Sanders is a long shot, but plausible. Paul is well outside the realm of possibility.

What about, and this would be entirely unconstitutional, but what if they were BOTH the president?

Like, not one the president and the other one the vice president. If they were just, dual presidents. Both the singular president. ( if either died, it would be counted as the president dieing, and the vp would take the place)

How about Paul/Sanders?