Marching orders.

(The Hill) — The liberal base will give its full support to President Obama in 2012 despite its frustration over the lack of progress on certain key issues, former White House senior adviser David Axelrod said Monday.

Axelrod — who will serve as a top aide to Obama’s reelection campaign — acknowledged that “people can be hardest on their friends,” but said that the Obama campaign has already received a “tremendous” volunteer response. He added that the choice between Obama and the Republican candidate will “galvanize” voters around the president.

“I don’t, in any way, doubt that there are those who don’t feel like progress has been made fast enough. I have no doubt that there are people with particular issues of concern who feel that way,” he said on MSNBC. “But, at the end of the day, I believe that people are going to be fully engaged when this next election comes, because they’ll understand exactly what the stakes are.”

The Obama administration has had several high-profile spats with liberal activists over the past year, and those incidents came to bear last weekened at Netroots Nation, a gathering of liberal online activists in Minneapolis.