Ted arrington

You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.

It gives you access to Republican interest-group money that you don't have if you don't take the pledge.

As long as people are raising private money in big numbers to finance expensive campaigns, you're going to have big contributors who have special interests controlling the outcome, whether it's video poker or the hog farmers or tobacco companies or the trial lawyers.

Anyone can plant. The planting is the easy part. The hard part is giving it the love and attention that it will need to grow and thrive after the roots have taken hold. Dont just leave it and hope it will find what it needs on its own. Remember, you are the cultivator. Embrace it, feed it, give it the comfort and warmth of your love. Let it be known that its not alone. Stay with it to the end.