It looks like the producers of True Blood really DID offer Sarah Palin a part. Surprisingly enough it was not as an undead bloodsucker.

Courtesy of TPM:  

It turns out HBO really did try to wrangle Sarah Palin into a cameo role on the vampire drama "True Blood." 

"Sarah Palin was one of several Republican figures brought up in discussions regarding episode 5 of 'True Blood,'" HBO spokeswoman Kelley Carville said Thursday in a statement to TPM. "Casting directors for the show reached out to Ms. Palin's representative but did not receive a response."

Of course as we know Palin recently freaked out over a recent episode in which Republicans were shown in a less than  positive light. You know essentially as they actually are in real life.

She also expressed confidence that when the producers invited her to participate in the show they did so to ridicule her or make fun of conservative women.

However the spokesperson for the show says that was never the intention at all:

"Had Sarah Palin come on the show she would have been treated with the same level of dignity and respect all of the show’s actors are and would have been privy to the script in advance of filming," HBO's Carville said.

Now it is perfectly understandable that Palin would assume that the show wanted her on in order to make fun of her, after all she is a national punchline these days.

However episode five, the one that she was offered, was broadcast way back in October of 2008, well before most of the world realized just what a disgrace she was. (I mean yeah, WE were making fun of her, but we were ahead of the curve all along.)

So Palin might have actually had an enjoyable time on the show, and after her humiliating defeat in November of 2008, could have possibly pursued a career as a mediocre actor. Instead of ending up as a failed reality show, and the coauthor of some very poorly written books.

Oh what might have been.