Yes. You are totally right. What's really sad is, Kelo should have been what made conservatives even more rock solid Republican voters if for no other reason then to make the Supreme Court incapable of that kind of activist decision again. Now that's all gone and thanks to the new Democrat Congress, the most conservative Justice we'll get the next two years is a gutless O'Conner/Kennedy type.
Judicial appointments can backfire...We've had republican presidents nominate and get confirmed justices who turned out to be liberal after all...and it could happen the other way around.