I think you're right. I've been all around the net, had phone calls from friends who don't share my politics, and these things have been brought up. The DETAILS remembered from this night will be Kerry's damning positions.
My jaw dropped when I heard the disarmament line, and I said "Kerry's just lost the election."
This brings to mind the old Saturday Night Live skit (I believe during the Dukakis campaign) where someone sat down with a guitar and began singing "Unilateral disarmament, abortion on demand, condoms for the kiddies, all across the land..."
One thing I have not seen refered to tonight: Dan Rather and CBS.
(Pause while people think "Ooookay...he's off subject...")
The bloggers who demolished Rather's lies are even now compiling, as I have already seen on the net tonight, annotated transcripts of Kerry's answers, building up a stack of Kerry lies. By the weekend's end, the net will be swamped with this stuff.
Kerry is forgetting the post-Rathergate media we've so recently started living in. The lies WILL spread. I jsut hope Cheney keeps some of them alive in the VP debate, so Bush can pick up on a couple in debate #2.
I think Bush won tonight, and have been bummed by the reviews to the contrary. But already I'm feeling better as I realize how Kerry's about to get buried in a mountain of his own bull. That will only enforce the dis-ease people have over him.
I could be wrong. But I don't think so.