Palin: Geithner's Debt Claims 'False'

Politico reports:

Sarah Palin spent Thursday night at a classic New Hampshire campaign-style event, spending almost two hours milling around on the lawn of a seaside home eating clams and chatting with voters.

But in her conversations with reporters, it was fishing regulations and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner that Palin roasted herself.

“If the debt ceiling were to be increased based on what I believe to be Timothy Geithner’s false statements to the American public — that a catastrophe would befall us all if the debt ceiling isn’t raised — a failure of leadership in the House would be if we were to cave and believe that,” Palin said, before departing on Thursday night.

Palin took almost 15 minutes to chat with reporters as she departed. Reporters from the Washington Post, Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg all came to the clam bake — many who had come over from Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign announcement in Stratham.

But Palin spent most of her time with the voters in a crowd that started at about two dozen, but quickly grew as neighbors wandered down the street wondering what was drawing the caravan of TV cameras and reporters. Andy Davis, a SarahPAC staffer, welcomed them off the street to his family home and offered them clam chowder.

And though she left the bus behind as she made her way in an SUV to get here, Palin confirmed that her One Nation tour would soon continue, telling local ABC affiliate WMUR that she intends to take the tour west after a few days off.