Forget the Des Moines Register, the New York Times or the Washington Post…The Finn Valley Voice has officially endorsed John McCain!

The Finn Valley Voice is not a paper from South Carolina or even Florida. It’s located in Ballybofey, a small town in County Donegal, in the North-West of Ireland. A U.S geneticist, Barra McCain, himself an eight cousin of the Senator from Arizona, discovered that around 400 people in the small town could be related to the presidential hopeful.

The Senator’s ancestor, Alexander McCain, emigrated to the U.S from Antrim, a county in the North-East of Ireland, in the eighteenth century. His relatives in Donegal spell their name either McKane or McKean.

The front page of The Finn Valley Voice gave the story the headline, “This week, the Finn Valley Voice asks you to vote for cousin John McCain.” Apparently, voting rights in U.S primaries have now been extended to remote rural towns on the edge of Irish civilization…

A couple of weeks ago, McCain told a crowd at a visit to a New Hampshire senior citizen’s center, that everyone in politics knows that in these politically correct times, you can’t get away with telling ethnic jokes. With one exception: the Irish. Cue to joke…A guy walks into a bar…

I wonder how his new found cousins feel about that?