[dano1]

It doesn't really sound like a threat to me. Seems like she was implying "You're going to lose this election and then your political career will be over." However it seems like quite a wild stretch to read this as a threat of bodily harm. Typical Drudge Sunday pre-radio show hype, IMHO.

[jackbill]

It doesn't really sound like a threat to me.

Perhaps it wasn't. But what would some of her supporters make of a "shrill" statement like that? How many threats of physical violence will Suzie get from Landrieu's supporters who want to respond in a way that they perceive that Mary would want them to?

"Shrill statements" like that can escalate, and "foment" people to anger. That's how things happen in Muslim countries, for instance.

Ask Tom Daschle.

[newslady]

Seems like she was implying "You're going to lose this election and then your political career will be over." However it seems like quite a wild stretch to read this as a threat of bodily harm.

Even if Mary meant what you say, she has at the very least shown herself to be an arrogant, mean-spirited lowlife by making such a remark. And remember that since 911, what used to be treated as idle threats are now taken seriously. Ms. Landrieu needs to learn to control her liberal, mean-spirited mouth.