Monday link dump: A complete dying of self

The place where Harold Ford is always welcome, a poor defense of racial profiling, and the rancid smell of politics

By Alex Pareene

The feeling of disgust makes people more conservative, apparently. (And speaking of!)
Danielle Crittenden writes what Adam Serwer calls the worst defense of racial profiling ever.
Watch clips of Christine O’Donnell’s deeply weird interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network.
The huge deficit is so huge primarily because revenues have plummeted. (So let’s raise the Social Security retirement age!)
Harold Ford: Unelectable in any state but always welcome on “Meet the Press.”
Everyone is laughing at the Democrats because they’re “scapegoating” and “playing the blame game” and using incredible spending by unaccountable outside groups as their excuse for losing an election. But no one is bothering to judge the claims of Democrats on their merits, which is funny.