Simply because they were taken out of context and twisted.
The same could be said for some of what you've posted.
No matter how long ago, was the death of a woman by Kennedy a lesser crime than Moore fondling teenagers? I think not.
I think it was. It was a crime of negligence and cowardice; sexual assault was not involved. Kennedy had been flirting with Mary Jo Kopeckne at a party. He'd been drinking. He offered to drive her home, and she accepted. The car went off the bridge; he survived, she drowned. He failed to report the accident for hours. Obviously, that was wrong. He shouldn't have been driving, and he shouldn't have panicked and left the scene.
Apples and oranges. The Kennedy and Moore cases are not in any way comparable.
And were the rape and sexual assaults by Clinton to be accepted, because they are a lesser crime?
As with Moore, those accusations were never proved in a court of law. Paula Jones did sue Clinton for exposing himself to her, and the case settled. If all that had happened today, and involved a politician who was still in, or running for, public office, things might have ended quite differently.
In the here and now, this doesn't seem to me to be an issue that's split most people along party lines. Except, of course, for some Alabama Republicans, Steve Bannon, Kellyanne Conway, and Donald Trump. The average person evidently feels men just need to stop doing this stuff. And I'm sure that will be fodder for conversation for a long time to come.
Unless it all just dies down, as it did after Anita Hill, and everyone once again moves on.
