Sarah Palin will appear on the cover of the next Condé Nast Portfolio — and not everyone’s happy about it.

As the economic crisis spreads, Portfolio editor-in-chief Joanne Lipman decided to put the Alaska governor on the glossy business magazine’s cover. Unfortunately for her, Palin didn’t offer any exclusive quotes, nor did she participate in a photo shoot. And some of Lipman’s staffers are wondering why she made such an odd decision, reports Women’s Wear Daily:

The move to put Palin on the cover met with some staff resistance, according to sources.

In an e-mail, Lipman described the story as being about the former vice-presidential candidate and “Big Oil, which is especially relevant now given plunging oil prices and increasing questions about Obama’s handling of the economic crisis.” She added, “We’ve been breathlessly following the saga of Bristol and Levi, too, but alas, you won’t read about that in the pages of Portfolio.”

The issue comes out tomorrow and the Palin pictures come from a February 2008 Vogue photo shoot.

In other Palin-related news, the governor will headline the National Republican Senatorial Committee and National Republican Congressional Committee’s dinner this summer. It’s the Party’s biggest fund-raising event of the year, and Palin’s presence has some wondering if the Party’s signaling she should run for the White House in 2012.