Now that Melania-gate has started to fade, I've been wishing in my political fantasy world that she would have started her speech by saying that given the events of recent weeks, it's more important to emphasize our commonalities as Americans instead of our differences as Republicans and Democrats. And that the values as expressed by Mrs. Obama including "that you treat people with dignity and respect even if you don't know them and even if you don't agree with them" are ones she also shares.
I believe, maybe naively, that by saying that it would have helped, even a little, in healing our fractured nation. I certainly would have had a lot of respect for her.