Ocasio-Cortez Confronts Crowley Over His 'Third-Party Challenge'

[Jim Lane]

90. Maybe you're insulting him by claiming he's abandoned his children, who live in Virginia.

Look, all this talk about insults -- your subject line and mine -- is just silly. The fact is that Crowley, like many members of Congress, maintains two places of abode. He has considerable latitude in deciding which one will be designated as his legal residence. For him to change that designation for a short period is just not that big a deal.

In an alternate universe, a former Bernie Sanders organizer launched a primary challenge to a member of the Democratic Party leadership. The former Sanders organizer lost the Democratic primary but appeared on the November ballot anyway, as an opponent of the Democratic nominee, even though she could have readily taken steps to remove her name.

The alternate universe has an alternate DU. I happen to live near a dimensional warp, so I can read alt-DU. That board is just filled with vitriolic denunciations of the progressive candidate who lost the Democratic primary but who is now splitting the vote. The people who have been harshest in their criticisms of alternate Bernie Sanders are leading the charge.

My personal opinion is that a candidate who loses the Democratic primary should not run against the Democratic nominee in the general election. If the unsuccessful candidate finds himself or herself on another party's ballot line, in opposition to the Democratic nominee, then he or she should make every effort to correct the situation.

And I hold that opinion whether the primary loser was the candidate I supported or the one I opposed.