To All You Hardcore Liberals: Don't Scare Away the Obama Coalition

By Christianne Taylor

I just have to say that I've been seeing a lot of mostly funny posts in my home feed beating up on my fellow social conservatives and some less funny posts mocking or making fun of my fellow believers. 

ATTENTION HARDCORE LIBERALS: 

You may not realize this, but the majority of the people who voted for Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 believe in God, and a healthy percentage of them are actually socially conservative moderates. Not all, but a lot. 

The majority of people who put Obama over the top are not hardcore anything. They're not hardcore liberals, they're not hardcore conservatives, they're not hardcore libertarians. If they're hardcore anything, they're hardcore moderates, hardcore independents and hardcore centrists.

So you need to be careful not to alienate us because quite a few of us campaigned hard as hell for Obama-- much harder than some of you.  Not because we think we own Obama more than you, not because we agree with you on everything, not because we have abandoned our values and what we believe.  Rather because we see the goodness, beauty, strength, power and greatness in this man. Barack Obama, a once in a lifetime shooting star that we won't likely get to see again after he leaves the national stage, if he leaves the national stage.  I hope he doesn't because he has done so many good things for so many hurting people and he will do so much more in the years to come.

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