Senator Russ Feingold has been getting a lot of attention lately regarding his trips to electorally significant locations around the country and his plan for setting a timetable to remove U.S. troops from Iraq and the coverage doesn’t stop with Wisconsin media and liberal web sites.

CBS News has an article titled “Solid Feingold”, toting the Senator’s consistent stance against the war in Iraq and his possible position as the true anti-war candidate in 2008.

One Democrat who has offered another course — and he must be feeling very lonely — is Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin. He has urged the United States to make a commitment to get all combat troops out of Iraq by the end of 2006. As Feingold says, we need a coherent alternative to either “stay the course” or “cut and run.” That alternative is phased withdrawal.

Feingold told a Los Angeles audience in late August: “The president and others say that if we leave, it will just be chaos in Iraq. Well, right now when you come to Iraq, you can’t even drive from the airport to the Green Zone.” Even inside the supposedly secure Green Zone, Feingold recounted, he was given a helmet and flak jacket…

Feingold is no radical. He gets elected in a swing state as a man of integrity and independence. He teamed up with Republican John McCain on campaign finance reform. He voted in favor of John Roberts for chief justice.

If the war is still going on in 2008, an antiwar candidate such as Feingold would be an odds-on favorite to win the Democratic presidential nomination over bigger names disabled by their own fatal caution.