The more I digest the testimony the more I think Kavanaugh shot himself in the foot. Ford has some holes and flags in her testimony as well but not nearly as bad as Kavanaugh.
What worried me about Kavanaugh's testimony:
Going off on a tangent about Trump and Clinton and democrats about political hits. This is not what is generally expected of SCOTUS justices.
Kavanaughs odd testimony about how much he liked beer and that sometimes he drank too much. These statements conflicted somewhat with his initial denials
Kavanaugh's claim that Boofing, deviles triangle, ralph club etc all meant something other than what seems to be a generally understood to mean something else. If it were only one word I could see the existence of an alternate innocent meaning but for all of those terms to just so happen to have innocent meanings as well is hard to believe. That combined with the sentence structure that the terms were used makes it seem Kavanaugh is lying here. Kavanaugh would have been better off just saying he does not recall what those terms meant.
Kavanaugh's comments to the female senator asking if she had every blacked out drinking. I give him credit that he apologized afterwards though
Kavanaugh's level of anger at the testimony. I am not concluding that his anger means he is lying, rather what bothers me about his anger is that I would expect better demeanor from a SCOTUS justice.
Kavanaugh mischaracterized the statements of the alleged witnesses. He stated that the witnesses denied the accusations when in fact they didn't deny the accusations, only said they don't recall anything like that. Mark Judge stated he had no memory of the alleged incident. Kavanaugh, as a judge, should know better than to mischaracterize evidence (a witness statement).
The calendar thing was odd. I give him the benefit of the doubt that maybe he really kept his old calendars but his calendar and what was on it really didn't do anything for his defense. In fact the calendar kind of worked against Kavanaugh.
I am not convinced that Kavanaugh is guilty however he gave a poor performance at the hearing which makes me think, whether guilty or innocent, that maybe he shouldn't be a SCOTUS justice. I don't think there is enough to satisfy a criminal charge against him though.