If this truly does happen, this may spell doom for the GOP ticket. I've seen several sources that have reiterated this topic.
Here (where it may have started)
Here
Here
This site contends that the whole thing is merely a spoof (which I hope it is), and the ever popular (but increasingly left-leaning) Snopes.com calls it "undetermined." HOWEVER, as things tend to go on the "interwebs," this is a re-run of a very similar type of email that went out in 2000 when Bush picked Cheney as his VP:
I just heard a rumor from a good source. The Republican party is feeling that Cheney is a liability on the ticket. There's a rumor that a few weeks prior to the election in a desperate attempt to win, Cheney will resign because of a trumped up heart problem or potential "threat to his health." Then either John McCain or Colin Powell will be asked to come on the ticket and save the party.
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