Over at the Flash Report, Jon Fleischman wrote a post about why Meg Whitman needs to endorse Prop 23:

Meg Whitman has made it abundantly clear that her campaign is tightly focused on a few key area – one of them being jobs and the economy.  There is no doubt that AB 32 is a job-killer.  Whether she is the next Governor of California or not, our state will be better positioned to come out of this recession is AB 32 is mothballed until the economy is humming – which will likely take a lot longer than the next Governor’s ability to temporarily suspend AB 32’s draconian regulations for just a year.

First, I welcome this.  I think campaigns should be about ideas.  And in this case, Jerry Brown is strongly opposing Prop 23. Meg Whitman, well, like all other areas, she’s nowhere to be seen. Instead, she airs another million of TV and pretends that she is owed something.  Let’s have a real debate, and see Whitman take a strong position one way or the other.

Of course, this being a conservative discussion, you have to toss in some willful ignorance to have a real party. Besides the throwaway use of “Democrat Party”, (I get it, very cute, Jon.) you have a heaping helping of climate denial:

There is certainly a vibrant debate taking place in the scientific community about whether or not changing temperature around the globe are tied to actions of people on the planet, or possibly part of a large, epic cycle of atmospheric change that is naturally caused.  

To that, well, the quick response is no, there isn’t a vibrant debate.  Ignorance does not make a debate vibrant.  Study after study after study show that humans are contributing to climate change, trying to come up with some false dichotomy only distracts us from finding long-term solutions.

Whitman has been skating along on her vagueness for too long. Whichever way she chooses to come down on Prop 23, she should give the voters a sense of who she really is.  As of right now, all we have is a few snippets from 30 second spots.