This looks to be Portfolio Magazine's first big scoop: Sarah Palin is against the Alaska gas pipeline even though she repeatedly said she was for it during the election.

Barack Obama wants the pipeline. It says so right on the White House website, in the section about energy and the environment: prioritize the construction of the alaska natural gas pipeline. But Obama might not realize that one of the biggest obstacles in its path—all Palin’s rhetoric notwithstanding—is the woman who wants to take the presidency from him in 2012, Governor Sarah “Drill, Baby, Drill” Palin.

As Mike Hawker, the Republican co-chairman of Alaska’s House Finance Committee, told me one night in Juneau not long ago, “The only thing standing in the way of an Alaska gas pipeline is the Sarah Palin administration.”

It's a great story, and any Sarah Palin-bashing reportage is fine with me: It's not too early to plan the attack for 2012.