India trip hurting Palin in New Hampshire?

Sarah Palin's scheduled trip to India next month may not be winning her many friends in New Hampshire.

"I know, presidential candidates like to travel abroad to boost their foreign policy credentials. And Palin needs those credentials badly," said New Hampshire Union Leader editorial page editor Andrew Cline, in a blog post Wednesday evening. "But I find it hard to believe that, presumably less than a year from the primary, someone who makes a trip to India a higher priority than a trip to New Hampshire is a serious presidential candidate. Chalk this up as one more bit of evidence that she's probably not running."

An aide for the former Alaska governor tweeted earlier Wednesday that Palin would be making a trans-continental trip to India in March to speak at the India Today 2011 conclave in New Delhi.