I'm thinking this doesn't fall along the lines of your classic liberal or conservative definition in who is outraged. I've found tons with liberal ideas on some topics (abortion, gay rights, etc) are equally outraged over this as your "traditional" conservatives. There's some sort of weird division going on here, IMO...
Around where I live its the "conservative" republican dominated government that is trying to take over perfectly good homes by eminent domain so that shopping centers can get built... Go figure....
Same thing in my Town. And I bet the developers in the New London case aren't card carrying Dem'RATS. I am truly outraged. Let's look at this case in the extreme (or perhaps not so extreme). Suppose I own a basic suburban McMansion on a sixteenth of an acre and I want to build a tennis court and Olympic size pool. The local zoning code requires a a half acre lot and the zoning board denies my request for an area variance. I go to my neighbor, who has two acres and I offer to buy land from him to give me the acreage needed to build the tennis court and pool. My neighbor says "no" if only because he can't swim and hates tennis. So I go the Town Board and ask them to condemn my neighbor's property and deed title to me so that I can make the improvements, which will increase the taxable value of my realty and provided needed construction jobs to a half dozen illegals from south of the border. Mindful of the $10,000 that I have donated to their political party over the years and with a "wink and a nod" with respect to future donations, the Town Board approves my request and exercises the power to acquire the property by eminent domain.
I put up this amendment to reverse the SCOTUS and a lot of bad precedent. But EVERYBODY in the government and everyone once you put them in the government CRAVES THIS POWER, cities, counties, states and feds, but only now believes we are so docile they could explicitly take it. The only way we will ever get this one back is to get rid of this government altogether.