Cool Papa Stan & the Exocet Missile | Eastern North Carolina Now

Campaign and election for Beaufort County commissioner reveals the similarity of this rather esoteric, but relevant anecdote.

Cool Papa Stan off the Campaign Trail
    On a humid November night, when the local conservatives were down to their last shot, a hero emerged. His name was Stan Deatherage and when ten days out he started picking and grinning with his old six string at the early voting site, the conservatives awakened and he became a political Exocet missile.

    Students of military lore will recall how in 1982 the first combat fired Exocet missile destroyed the pride of the British fleet, HMS Sheffield, with a stunning Mach 2 strike a meter above the waterline. Asleep at the wheel the Sheffield crew never saw the missile until seconds before impact, and thus it was the same for the Democratic candidate bamboozled with a thousand vote margin by an old Pam Pack linebacker. Dismissed as a non-campaigning bungler by the moderates of the county, Cool Papa Stan struck with lethal precision in a stunning ten day blitzkrieg that saw him crisscross the county in his convertible Mustang playing the guitar and sharing the conservative mantra of "keep your hands off my wallet brother."

    The Argentine pilot that fired the fatal shot in 1982 had been forbidden to deploy the post-modern ship-killer as the country was in shambles much as Stan's home county of Beaufort was after the last "liberals pretending to be Republican tax cuts". Enraged by the shocking tax increase, Stan Deatherage put down his pen, picked up his guitar and took his conservative message to the people of the county with a little bit of that old school stumping. And the rest, as they say, is history.
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( November 8th, 2018 @ 10:47 am )
 
God bless you for coming clean with the truth about Westerby.

Now I fully understand: It is /was, and will always be, primarily about the '"Exocet Missile"; one meter above the deck; traveling at mach 2; intended to deploy, with great prejudice, whether or not the ordinance is properly prepared to detonate.'
( November 8th, 2018 @ 10:08 am )
 
I was not familiar with this story until I stumbled upon Westerby at the early voting site about a week out from the election and he turned his head away from the crowd, and said with a big grin on his face, "an Exocet Missile has been launched out here" Intrigued, I studied up on the battle, and quickly became hip to what was going on when the next time out there I saw the target babbling away on his cell phone as a couple of dozen voters walked right pass him. It reminded me how the air 'defence officer was talking on a satellite phone when the missile hit.
( November 8th, 2018 @ 9:35 am )
 
It is a well written piece, and I do appreciate the kind sentiment; however, I truly do believe it was always just about the "Exocet Missile".
( November 8th, 2018 @ 9:25 am )
 
1 Meter from the ground Mach 2 speed..
( November 7th, 2018 @ 12:47 am )
 
Thank-you Jerry for your vivid metaphor of the Falklands War, and your British Naval History analogy gives me great pause to thank my Republican opponent Tandy Dunn for a race well run:

Thanks Tandy for your rapid congratulations, but, moreover, thanks for being a solid Conservative that I well knew I would have been able to depend on when the crunch of governing takes center stage.

It was a Democrat night in Beaufort County for the commissioner's race, where popularity, Liberal ideals and special interests were paramount in the selection of our representatives.

Randy Walker may have said it best: 'As I talk to people in Beaufort County, I don't see people concerned about their taxes going up. I think everyone would like to pay no taxes, but people know that taxes have to go up to provide all these services.'

By quoting Randy, I am enunciating that it just has not gotten bad enough yet for Democrats; the upper class in Beaufort County, and, moreover, many people in Beaufort County who still do not pay enough attention to the real government story to understand the difference of how government, out of control, will usually snowball into a fiscal catastrophe.

Tandy, you ran as a real Conservative, and you were true to that message, and that is most commendable in my burgeoning book.

So, thank-you Tandy, and I wish you well in any future political endeavors that you should continue to explore.



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