Last week the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, named former Vice President Mike Pence a Distinguished Visiting Fellow.
Behind the scenes, however, it was a bloodbath. The Foundation’s Board of Trustees voted 12-10 to award Pence the title of “Distinguished,” but only after a motion in favor of the term “Dipwad” failed (7-15). Opponents of the “Dipwad” proposal correctly noted that the term does not appear in Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary. “Dipwad” supporters claimed that such a technicality did not change the fact that “everyone knows that Mike Pence is a dipwad — and an obsequious one at that.”
Tensions within the Board have yet to subside, causing plans for the Foundation’s annual Plantation Days Celebration in Natchez, Mississippi in June to be put on hold, a development that threatens the region’s mint julep, sweet tea, and indentured servitude industries.