Fox pulls AP story suggesting key conservatives demand Palin step down? Calls for Palin step down step up from the right...

It appears that an AP story was removed from Fox News after it topped its category on Google News. Here is the headline and excerpt from Google News:

Conservatives Begin Questioning Palin’s Heft
FOXNews - 4 hours ago
by AP A growing number of Republicans are expressing concern about Sarah Palin’s uneven - and sometimes downright awkward - performances in her limited media appearances.

But the link simply brings up one of several page-not-found messages from Fox's website and a search using their own online search produces a number of related Palin/election stories -- but not that one.

The New York Daily News has a brief write-up on Palin's fall from GOP grace.

Time Magazine has an analysis that seems to suggest part of what has got the right worried:

[W]e should stop pretending that she is ready now or anytime in the forseeable future to be Commander-in-Chief.

I reached this conclusion after watching the foreign-policy portion of her disastrous Sept. 25 interview with Katie Couric. A number of commentators, including The Atlantic's James Fallows and Slate's Christopher Beam, have said that Palin resembled, in Beam's words, "a high-schooler trying to BS her way through a book report," which is an insult to both high-schoolers and B.S. Palin's answers were hesitant, convoluted and at times — like when she appeared to suggest that Vladimir Putin might be preparing a one-man airborne invasion of Alaska — downright loony.

But the more worrisome responses were the ones that betrayed her lack of curiosity about current events and reliance on bumper-sticker wisdom over complex thoughts. There were moments, in fact, in which you wondered whether she had been paying any meaningful attention to the world outside Alaska before McCain picked her as his running mate a month ago.

Conservative, National Review columnist [permit pulled from Department of Redundancy Department for that descriptive] Kathleen Parker lays it out to other conservatives in a no-nonsense fashion, as quoted by the AP. Saying that her "cringe reflex is exhausted" watching Palin's awkward and stumbling interview performances, Parker wrote in National Review Online:

"No one hates saying that more than I do. Like so many women, I've been pulling for Palin, wishing her the best, hoping she will perform brilliantly. I've also noticed that I watch her interviews with the held breath of an anxious parent, my finger poised over the mute button in case it gets too painful. Unfortunately, it often does.

"Only Palin can save McCain, her party, and the country she loves. She can bow out for personal reasons, perhaps because she wants to spend more time with her newborn. No one would criticize a mother who puts her family first."