Here’s a first-hand account of the speech by Janice Rogers Brown, first reported here and here. Suffice it to say that Brown comes out looking more sophisticated and formidable in the first account.
Hat tips: Local Liberty and Patterico.
Confirm Them (a site you should bookmark, by the way) has more on efforts to smear Brown.
Update: Win Myers links to and discusses this column about Brown.
Update #2: Cynthia Tucker says that Brown is outside the mainstream. Then how did she manage to win "reelection to her state supreme court seat with a stunning 76 percent of the vote in one of the bluest of the blue states, California?" asks Steven G. Calabresi. Tuckers mainstream is, of course, that of the Democratic Left.
Calabresi is dead-on. If any of the smears against Brown were true, her Democratic constintuency would not keep electing her by such large margins.