Barack Obama was recently listed as the most liberal member of the US Senate--and that's saying something--by the National Journal. That doesn't stop this claim found via Jules Crittenden:

Tony is also press officer for an organization known as “Republicans for Obama” (RFO). The group was started in December 2006, before Obama officially announced his candidacy, to help encourage him to make a run for the White House. Since then, the all-volunteer RFO has morphed into a grassroots effort to disseminate information on why Republicans should support the Senator. The group — active members of which number around a thousand — operates with no funding and no coordination or official relationship with the Obama campaign.

So, how does a Republican and former Bush booster like Tony end up working with an organization that is supporting a Democratic Senator’s bid for the White House?

“Obama is more conservative than the media sometimes express,” Tony said when we talked Thursday afternoon, March 6. “Obama co-sponsored the federal funding and transparency act with (Republican) Senators Coburn and McCain. He co-sponsored the nuclear non-proliferation bill with (Republican) Senator Lugar. He was also a co-sponsor of a Senate immigration bill that would have cracked down on employers using illegal labor and helped secure our borders.”

“Granted, on certain things, I don’t agree with him,” Tony added. “For instance, I’m pro-life; he’s not. But he is pro-abstinence, which I applaud. Plus, he displays a level of common sense that the other candidates seem to be lacking.”