I don’t know who’s been calling U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor a wimp, but Michael Teague, the senator’s communications aide, says they can stop.

A wimp doesn’t get the attorney general calling on his office. A wimp doesn’t look the nation’s chief law enforcement officer in the eye and tell him to quit. A wimp doesn’t blow the lid off a Washington scandal.

Before I get Teague in too much trouble for defending a charge that Pryor perhaps would prefer not get aired in the first place, let me hasten to lend context.

Actually, Teague was referring to the kinds of things you can read in the rabid left-wing blogosphere. I’m talking about these illogical partisans who type tough at their computer screens all day. They decry, usually anonymously, the gutlessness of politicians of Pryor’s stripe who sometimes eschew the incendiary polarization of modern politics to seek fair and pragmatic solutions.