I'm not sure I'd agree with you really - it depends what you're comparing. For interlaced 480i/576i video, unless you're buying a good LCD then yes, it's likely to blur, as most don't do a good job deinterlacing. But that's not due to it being an LCD. It's a non-issue with progressive scan/HD.
While we don't have "perfect" response times, I've not seen any smearing on the best LCDs available today. (any other kind of blurring is not response time related) There can still be a little "defocusing" but it's not too obvious at the distances you should be watching TV.
I've certainly seen far longer trails behind objects on a CRT than I have on an LCD. (really obvious with a bright object moving over a black background)
LCDs can be set brighter, and have non-reflective screens, making them much more visible in a bright room during the daytime.
There are no geometry, convergence, colour uniformity, blooming, shifting black-point, power regulation issues etc. Not to mention being free of 50/60Hz flicker and scanlines.
I'm not sure I buy the "CRT has better colour" argument either, and there are certainly no issues with LCD displaying shadow detail now. (I can tell the difference between 0,0,0 1,1,1 2,2,2 black etc)
This is a custom profile of my LCD created with a Spyder2PRO comparing the colour gamut of my LCD versus a standard crt monitor:
(LCD is the solid colour, the CRT is the wireframe)
All display types are a compromise, but overall, the advantages of LCD over CRT far outweigh the disadvantages, in my opinion. I recently went back to a CRT to try it, and had to stop watching after about 20 minutes because the flicker was causing so much eyestrain and starting to give me a headache. (not to mention the huge scanlines and geometry / convergence isses.)