Why has nobody pointed out until now that even Moore and his wife have a 15-year gap between them? I didn't even think to look.
Not googling every instance right now but that seems to be roughly the same age difference that exists in all of these stories (including the new ones where the victims weren't, you know, teenagers): suggests a pattern of behavior.
Only difference between Moore's wife and his accusers is that it looked like Moore waited to pursue her. A few of Moore's defenders also have brought his wife's age difference into the equation of why his actions were ok, ignoring the fact that Moore and his now wife got together when she wasn't a teenager.
From Jim "Mary and Joseph" Ziegler:
