I have had many brilliant political ideas. There was my failed campaign to eliminate the penny, my mildly successful plea for people to send me letters to stem the Post Office’s budget losses and — as you undoubtedly remember from the 2000 Republican convention — my winning argument that the delegate from Utah introduce her state as “Utah: the only state that starts with U.”

My new notion is bigger than any of those: The Democratic nominee should pick, as her or his running mate, a Republican. Specifically, the nominee should choose a moderate anti-Trump Republican capable of attracting right-leaning independents, such as Ohio Gov. John Kasich, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush or current Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.