Not much to worry about here. David Souter was a bust from the get-go, voting consistently with the liberal side of the bench. Still it will be good to get the troops fired up on this, as The Hill notes:

“Phone lines around Washington began burning this morning as conservative organizations kicked off preparations for the fight over President Obama’s eventual Supreme Court nominee.

Associate Justice David Souter’s decision to step down at the end of this term has awakened a long-dormant network of conservative organizations that will do their best to augment — and at times pressure — Senate Republican efforts to frame Obama’s eventual choice.

A group of more than 50 conservative groups held a conference call early Friday to begin plotting strategy, sources on the call said.

“You’re already having chatter between conservatives on who is going to be the nominee, what type of nominee is going to be put forward by President Obama,” said Brian Darling, the Heritage Foundation’s Senate director and a former top Judiciary Committee staffer.

Groups like the American Center for Law & Justice, the Coalition for a Fair Judiciary and the Committee for Justice will all prepare background research on potential nominees, setting up the eventual, inevitable attacks on the nominee as a left-wing extremist.

Those groups are gearing up for the first time since helping doom the nomination of former White House counsel Harriet Miers in President Bush’s second term and replacing her with Samuel Alito.

“We’ll be organized. We’re more organized than ever before,” said Jay Sekulow, the prominent conservative lawyer who heads the American Center for Law & Justice. “The reality is we’ve got quite a challenge here with a Democratic Senate that’s virtually filibuster-proof.”

Sekulow also pointed to the fact that Senate Republicans have yet to designate a point person on the nomination. The GOP lost its top judicial spokesperson this week when Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.), who had been the ranking member on the Judiciary Committee, bolted for the Democratic Party.”

Hmmm, Specter. Yeah he could be the fly in the ointment if Obama seeks to appoint an uber-liberal, but still not much we can do about it. Still this is a great awakening for the core conservative front to reignite. Over at the Corner Ed Whelan reminds us of the stakes:

” [I]n coming years, Souter’s replacement may well provide the fifth vote for:

— the imposition of a federal constitutional right to same-sex marriage;

— stripping “under God” out of the Pledge of Allegiance and completely secularizing the public square;

— the continued abolition of the death penalty on the installment plan;

— selectively importing into the Court’s interpretation of the American Constitution the favored policies of Europe’s leftist elites;

— further judicial micromanagement of the government’s war powers; and

— the invention of a constitutional right to human cloning.

American citizens have various policy positions on all these issues, but everyone ought to agree that they are to be addressed and decided through the processes of representative government, not by judicial usurpation. And President Obama, who often talks a moderate game, should be made to pay a high price for appointing a liberal judicial activist who will do his dirty work for him.

What this might mean is that the sleeping lion will awake and we can use this threat to go to America just if they want such a country. Again, had Obama ran with this list as campaign talking points he’d still be home writing books and polishing his fake birth certificate.

What these organizations should do, and I’m sure they are preparing them now, is TV ads and print ads detailing the horrors to our constitution such a pick would make.

It’s time to get nasty folks, America is on the line, let’s get busy.

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