Working both sides is not a D or R-sourced thing. It’s been a Jesuit-taught thing for many centuries. (Rs and Ds are the “beneficiaries.”)
VP choices in 2016 went to Kaine and Pence because they were each Deep State dirty and capable of being taken down.
Think Spiro Agnew—to hurt Nixon and wedge in Rockefeller to President. The hero (in this regard, at least) Nixon, wouldn’t let the country to be saddled with an oil magnate president (AMOCO, ARAMCO, etc.). Nixon played hardball negotiator and the result was Ford.
Watch for parallels with Horizontal.
don’t forget that poppy got bolted on to the great ronaldo in a package deal