It’s been said that a man should never get down in the mud with a pig. After all, the pig will love it, and the man will only get himself muddy.

That said, there comes a time in every man’s life when enough is enough. And yesterday, at a warehouse in the northern Detroit suburb of Sterling Heights, Vice President JD Vance had clearly had enough.

“Abdul,” the veep said, “keep my wife’s name the hell outta your mouth because she’s way out of your league."

Usha Vance is a brilliant and beautiful second lady, and she clearly is out of the league of the swarthy little guy whom her husband called out. But Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed, Michigan’s Muslim Democrat Socialist candidate for senator, had been asking for it for weeks.

A few days ago, El-Sayed snidely commented about the Vance family’s mixed-race marriage, which includes JD’s hillbilly heritage: “So do we think JD is taking Usha with him back in time to meet Papaw, or no?”

I wonder how Michigan’s Indian community will take that comment — and Michigan’s women voters more generally. My guess is not too favorably.

Prior to that, back in April, on "The Allen Analysis Show" podcast, El-Sayed went straight into the sewer: “What do you think is going through Usha’s head when he talks? She’s like, ‘Damn, I have to sleep with him.’”

The creepy El-Sayed kept going: “I mean, I guess she’s pregnant, so I guess, I guess something’s happening. ... Can you imagine, like, he’s got brown kids. At some point, he’s going to have a really awkward conversation with his kids ... like, you know, like, you made your career hating people who are different.”

Yesterday, in response to all this vile garbage, the vice president pulled no punches:

My message to Abdul El-Sayed is: You can pal around with terrorist sympathizers, and you can say that America deserved 9/11, or you could empathize not with the children who were targeted at Temple Israel but with the attacker. These are all despicable things, but they’re all things that the people of Michigan will judge you on based on your record. But I actually think that the people of Michigan think it's kind of weird when you talk about another guy's wife. … But whatever you want to talk about, Abdul, keep my wife's name the hell outta your mouth, because she's way out of your league.

This was a clever turn of phrase from Vance, who no doubt saw the video of a triumphant El-Sayed from a few weeks ago, after having barely limped across the finish line to win the Michigan Democrat primary despite having had a double-digit lead in the polls. At that time, El-Sayed tried to win friends and influence people by attacking those who couldn’t pronounce Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed with the proper Arabic inflection by inviting them thusly: “If you can't say the name Abdulrahman, keep the name outcher damn mouth.”

It hasn’t been a good week for El-Sayed so far — and it’s only Tuesday. First, he tried to shore up his weakness among black voters by cutting an endorsement video that included AFSCME Local 1659 President Lorna Davison. Unfortunately for El-Sayed, it looked a lot more like a hostage video. Indeed, it’s hard to tell whether El-Sayed is holding a jambiya to Davison’s back, but she clearly looks like she’d rather be getting waterboarded than be endorsing El-Sayed.

The mainstream media didn’t do the Bad Doctor any favors during the primary season, either. By refusing to shed light on El-Sayed’s spit-swapping bromance with Mao-worshiping America-hater Hasan Piker, and his past comments about Iran and Sharia law and Muslim terrorists and Jewish Americans and football and slavery and white supremacy and, yes, Usha Vance, they’ve set him up to pay a steep Taranto Tax between now and November. (“The Taranto Effect,” coined by The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto, suggests that the media’s continuous coddling of Democrat candidates leaves them ill-prepared for the difficult questions that are sure to come from their Republican opponents during the general election campaign.)

But it’s not just Republicans who are teeing off on El-Sayed. “I find this guy to be really, really troubling,” said Democrat strategist James Carville during his “Politics War Room” podcast. “I think he’d do himself some good if he made very clear the specific things that Hasan Piker said that he disagrees with because I gotta tell you, they make me really, really uncomfortable.”

Carville can’t be the only Democrat who’s uncomfortable with El-Sayed’s bromance with the vile Piker. Nor can he be the only Democrat who’s getting a bit creeped out by El-Sayed’s weird fascination with our nation’s second lady.