JUST SPECULATIN'

What would happen if the President of the United States went insane?

I don't mean Bush, Clinton, Carter, Ford, or anyone specific -- I'm speaking generically.

Let's look at it like this. A standing president, in office, slowly, then rapidly, begins to lose his senses. His decisions become more and more suspect. His speech is slurred. He becomes paranoid. He starts talking about launching nuclear bombs against Uzbekistan when the Super Bowl champions come to visit the White House. The press corps' murmurs become roars.

Would the military take over? Could there be a quiet, internal coup? Or what if the president wasn't insane, but his policies were so far out of whack that the only choice was to smother him, figuratively, if not literally? Could it happen? In a country like America? Cambodia, yes, sure, it's almost mandatory, I think, but in the States? How about it?

Just speculatin'. Make a good movie, I think...