Right.
And FDR did not run against the President he had lost to just 4 years earlier.
FDR’s election was no rematch. Just as Nixon’s second run wasn’t a rematch either. Both Nixon and FDR waited at least 8 years and for a totally different ticket to run against.
But Dewey, Stevenson, and Mondale all ran in rematches of one form or another, and all lost. And by bigger margins the second time around.
Running one of your losing candidates against the ticket they already lost to 4 years ago amounts to political surrender for a party.
counterpunch's First Rule of Presidential Politics. So far as I can tell, no other serious observer subscribes to counterpunch's First Rule. Which is: Under certain highly specific conditions, it's never happened before. Therefore, it can never happen under any conditions.
For reasons of his own -- never identified -- counterpunch doesn't like Palin. That's his right, of course. But you may feel free to ignore his First Rule as it appears to be borne of bias...