What would you think if Hillary picks Bernie as VP?

[TheKentuckian]

64. I'd think it stinks, what is the benefit of Sanders being Clinton's hood ornament?

You understand officially and legally the Vice President breaks rare and randomly occurring ties (I don't even remember the last time this even happened), checks on the health of the President, and hangs out in DC in case the President is incapacitated or expires, right?

Can a President at their pleasure give their VP more to do and/or make them an influential adviser? Sure. Can the President also completely cut their VP out of the loop and send them to the Naval Observatory when they aren't attending state funerals they don't feel they need to go to and then drop them like a hot potato? Absolutely.

Is a VP going to be able to a President in line or lead or even participate in push back against them? No, not really.

Other than Cheney being the puppet master what VP has had any practical power?

Gore was probably 3rd he was more the Secretary of Special Projects than Co-President which was more Hillary Clinton though I don't think that is accurate either just closer than Gore.

Bush had significant power but that is because he came with that power and he'd have juice if he was sitting at home or on a beach somewhere instead of the Whitehouse but while Reagan was a puppet, I'm not sure he was exactly Bush's puppet but rather Bush had enough weight to throw around that he could cause the ones pulling Reagan's strings to broker something of a compromise.

Mondale hung out.

Rockefeller was maybe the ultimate hood ornament.

Agnew was a henchman.

Humphrey totally neutered.

LBJ a total move to have him in the tent pissing out rather than outside pissing in and geography.

Nixon was powerful, he was actively back up President, influential adviser, and perhaps the first Secretary of Special Projects.

Before that, they generally were truly relegated strictly to constitutional duties.