It looks like Sarah Palin has found a new adversary in a female vampire.
Or, at least, an actress who plays a bloodsucker on the HBO hit “True Blood.” Kristin Bauer van Straten, who plays vampire Pam Ravenscroft on the HBO program, hit back at the former governor of Alaska for criticizing a recent episode in which Republican women were referred to as “Republic–ts.”
“She’ll weigh in on anything,” Ravenscroft said Saturday at Comic-Con in San Diego, California, according to Deadline Hollywood. “It’s sweet many, many years later that I’ve made her angry, I had fun doing it.”
Sarah Palin revealed to Breitbart last week that HBO had asked her to make a cameo in the episode, which featured a vampire-feeding frenzy at a fictional fundraiser for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.).
“The brilliant minds of ‘True Blood’ were brazen enough to ask me to do a cameo on their show, apparently so they could insult a conservative woman in person instead of just all conservative women in general,” Palin said. “Their offer wasn’t presented in any negative way, perhaps to benefit from a surprise factor after the guest appearance. I turned them down anyway.”
“Nice try HBO,” she continued. “I’d put any mama grizzly in America against a vampire any day; for only one of them actually exists. The left wants to talk about a ‘war on women’? Keep engaging in your misogynist attacks on women you disagree with and we’ll see who wins your self-inflicted war in the court of decent public opinion.”
The network confirmed that the cameo offer was made to Palin representatives.
Ted Cruz also expressed his distaste for the episode, labeling it “misogynist and profanity-ridden” in a post on his Facebook page.
“I’m sorry to have lost the vampire vote,” read the Texas senator’s post, “but am astonished (and amused) that HBO is suggesting that hard-core leftists are blood-sucking fiends.”
