I’m imagining a scene from the wedding of a political candidate:

Officiant: Do you pledge to love, honor and cherish, and to be true and loyal as long as you both shall live?

Candidate: I’m taking a look at that idea, yes.

Sparking this fantasy is a radio interview I heard Sunday night with state Sen. Kirk Dillard (R-Hinsdale), one of seven candidates in the February GOP gubernatorial primary.

“We need to look at every (economic) incentive the state of Illinois offers,” he said at one point during the hourlong program on WLS-AM 890.

Dillard also mentioned that he’s “looking at the full gamut of jobs that are around” as he makes plans to turn the state into “a better financial center.”

And in response to a question about whether a state drowning in red ink should be funding the arts, Dillard said the Illinois Arts Council “clearly needs to be — like everything in state government — on the block to be looked at.”

Of all the campaign promises and declarations you will hear in the next several months, the flimsiest will be the ones containing the assurance that the candidate is taking a “look” — even the emphatic “hard look” — at an idea.