Byron York is doing good investigative work on this.
“It’s not clear what the McCain team had in mind. (I’ve sent a note to Wallace asking for more details.) The vice presidency is a constitutional position, and once elected, the president cannot fire the vice president. If McCain wanted to be rid of Palin, he would have had to do that before the election, not after. Of course, as Wallace suggests, the question became moot after the economic crisis hit and McCain’s mishandling of events led to a fatal decline in the polls. But the idea that a presidential nominee’s aides were discussing whether to somehow push an elected vice-president out of office is remarkable.
UPDATE: I just spoke with Charlie Black, who was McCain’s top campaign adviser in the 2008 race. “I never heard any such discussions,” Black told me. “There were no discussions like that with McCain, or I think I would have known about them. That doesn’t mean some subset of the senior staff might have talked to each other about it.”
As for the constitutional issues involved with blocking an elected vice-president from taking the oath of office, Black said, “Whoever was having that discussion, if there was one, didn’t have a good lawyer in the group.”
She’s just pushing the book and figured that would help to get in some image like oh heck what was that book about clinton that wasn’t?
I hate gettin old....lol