Here’s why you shouldn’t rule out a different GOP ticket in 2020.

An appetite for instability and a thirst for media attention could spell trouble for Pence.

Some highly influential and important people have occupied the office of the Vice President. Whether that’s because they themselves have gone on to occupy the Oval — as Bush Snr, Ford, Nixon, Johnson have, or whether they were able to stamp their own formative mark on the office without the promotion — as Al Gore and Dick Cheney did, and indeed, as Biden is continuing to do.

As with every elected office, its powers and scope have evolved far beyond that of what was defined, or perhaps even intended, by the Founding Fathers. That is not exactly unexpected, as the VP you are one heart beat away from the Presidency — something that four men can attest to.

The most famous quote regarding the office, however, is hardly encouraging. According to John Nance Garner, it is nothing more than a warm bucket of spit, and he should know, he was one of three to serve under FDR.

However, the procedural, or constitutional importance of the office is one thing; the political implications are an entirely different beast. Frank Underwood (another Vice President [House of Cards] who has been un-done by a history of sexually…