someone on this stage will get to choose the balalae of the supreme court, and it wi begin by filling this vacancy that's there now, and we need to put people on the bench that understand the constitution is not a living and breathing document. it is to be interpreted as originally meant. >> moderator: quickly, though on the question-- ( applause ) very quickly, senator, on this specific question, though. you were once in favor of dropping the threshold-- >> that's not accurate. >> moderator: you were never in favor of that. >> for example, today, according to the changes harry reid made, appellate judges can now be appointed by simple majority, but not supreme court justices and today i think you see the wisdom of why we don't that want to change. because if that were the case and we were not in charge of the senate harry expreed barack obama would ram down our throat a liberal justice, like the ones barack obama has imposed on us already. bush, i want to ask you, creativities for a long time have felt their republican presidents have picked justices who didn't turn out to be conserv