Think about John Kerry's lucky hat. Mr. Kerry keeps an old camouflage hat in his briefcase, The Washington Post reported last year. Mr. Kerry says this "good luck hat" was "given to me by a CIA guy as we went in for a special mission in Cambodia." Forget about the "global test"; this one doesn't pass the smell test.
Mr. Kerry has repeatedly spoken of his 1968 Christmas in Cambodia ("seared, seared" in his memory, as he said in the Congressional Record), but not one crew member, not even the ones who support him for president, corroborate his story of venturing into Cambodia, not at Christmas, not ever. Richard Nixon couldn't even have sent him there, as Mr. Kerry has claimed, because Richard Nixon wasn't yet in office. (President Nixon sent troops to Cambodia more than a year later, long after Mr. Kerry had returned to the United States.) Khmer Rouge couldn't have shot at Mr. Kerry, as he has claimed, because Khmer Rouge didn't take the field until 1972. There's no evidence, official or even anecdotal, that Mr. Kerry was ever in Cambodia. All of which makes that moldy old hat of his look pretty scary on a potential commander-in-chief.
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