I think it might be more a case of which bit of McCain is dead.

Paris, Ahh, hell, if you need the little blue pills you just don`t deserve her...

That people are stupid enough to fall for these emails (they spelt his name wrong for god sake!) or the fact that there's obviously a market out that would want to see a sex vid involving McCain's wife? Come on he's like 80 - his wife would have to be around that age too! Thats not even a mental image id wish on my worst enemy!

Spammers use current news events/made up topical events/porn offers/random snippets of sentences (delete as appropriate) and have done for years. This is hardly a new trend. Slow news day at El Reg?

Actually his wife is in her 50's. And McCain is only in his 70's. It's called Google.