Is this just something he says to mollify hunters in Wisconsin?
Feingold can and will say anything. Doesn't mean he'd vote that way.
I've seen him look straight into the camera during a campaign debate and say exactly the opposite of what his actual vote in the Senate said. His whole *maverick* act is a charade, but he pulls it off, over and over again. Extremely frustrating because in reality, he's probably the most radical liberal in the Senate (although even his *big ideas* aren't as grand on the socialism scale as Hitlery's).
Finegold is hypocrite, and as you said, he CAN and WILL (emphasis mine) say anything and doesn't meal he'd vote that way. His big first time campaign spiel was "Nobody's Senator but yours" and he had the cute commercials with "no skeletons in his closet". Yet this sycophant ass-kissing water-carrying democRAT toady has always, always voted along party lines, never minding letters to the contrary written by his constituents (I being one who has written many letters). He is aligning himself as a potential for the oval orifice in 2008 as is the Evil One - the Hildebeast!
Be afraid. Be very afraid.