Presidential Succession

Instapundit has links to an interesting discussion about the presidential succession. Currently, the speaker of the House is 3rd in line of succession, so should the president and vice-president be removed in some way or other, the presidency would fall to the Speaker. Sandy Levinson wants to revert the law back to its prior version under which the presidency would fall to the Secretary of State. This would avoid potential problems of the presidency switching parties in this admittedly unlikely scenario. Sounds reasonable, but I would echo a comment on another blog: "elevating an unelected official to the highest elected office in the land is much worse" than the current system.