The differences are significant.You are pretending that these little differences you bring up are signifigant. There will never be exactly the same situation but clearly there have been plenty of presidental contenders with much worse associations where a big deal was never made.
This bruhahaha is outragous. Especally coming from people who did not care who GWB's former business partners were!
One has the person working on their campaign as an adviser.
The other was rejected by the person they are supposed to be associated to.
One was good friends and spoke personally with the pastor about how to distance himself from him if he stood a chance to gain the nomination.
The other was told he could not have communion or participate in the church by the other and had, as far as I know, never spoken personally to him.
Those are huge glaring differences. It is disingenuous to pretend that they are somehow in parity.