Breaking: Mitt Romney Is "NOT Running For President In 2016" (Wink-Wink,Nod-Nod)

2016 Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney: "Down" but definitely not "Out"

Uh-oh peeps.  Bad news for Utah Mormons who believe that the US Constitution is "hanging by a thread." Seems that our indigenous  Utah Mormons' most prominent presidential contender, i.e. Mitt Romney, has "thrown in the towel," regarding the possibility of making a 2016 Presidential election run, (and "fulfilling 'the prophesy'"):'

• Mitt Romney Is Not Running For President In 2016

Not to worry, Utah Mormons!  We're confident that the national GOP's #1 flip-flopper (Romney) will be back in the race, no later than May, 2015, once Tom Monson catches wind of this [wink].

Update 2/1/15 10:00 a.m.: The Standard is carrying this Friday, 1/30/15 A.P. story, which provides some local "flavor":

• Utah officials disappointed Romney sitting out 2016

Tantalizing quotes from Utah GOP Party "boss," James Evans:

James Evans, the Utah GOP chair, said he is disappointed, but Romney is doing what the former Massachusetts governor believes will give Republicans the best chance of winning the White House.
“I happen to think that he’s the best possibility,” said Evans, who led a Utah-based “Draft Mitt” campaign to encourage Romney to run again.
Evans is still holding out hope that Romney could change his mind again and run after all.
“I still think there could be a possibility for him to run if none of the other candidates catch fire,” Romney Evans said. “Maybe everyone will come to Mitt Romney later this year and say, ‘We need you to do this.‘“

It gets "interestinger and interestinger," dunnit?

Big Boost: Mitt Romney Backs Count My Vote

Bad news for Count My Vote opponents, wethink, as Romney contributes his Utah political "star-power" to the CMV citizens initiative juggernaut.

There's a blockbuster development in the Count My Vote citizens inititiive story as GOP heavyweight Mitt Romney, who garnered "90 percent of the vote in Utah’s 2008 presidential primary and captured more than 93 percent of the vote [in 2012]," leaps aboard the CMV bandwagon, and endorses replacing Utah's current caucus/convention system with a direct primary nomination procedure.

Here's the lede from Saturday's KSL News story, along the accompanying KSL video, which we've helpfully embedded below:

SALT LAKE CITY — Mike Leavitt, former governor of Utah, confirmed Sunday that Mitt Romney has thrown his support behind the Count My Vote effort to bring a primary election system to Utah.
In an email dated Feb. 19, addressed to Leavitt and obtained by KSL, Romney says, "I want to tell you Ann and I are supporters," he tells Leavitt, one of the organizers of the Count My Vote effort.
Romney writes he has been "pushing hard" for states to move to direct primaries since the most recent election.
"Convention/caucus systems exclude so many people," the email reads. "They rarely produce a result that reflects how rank and file Republicans feel. I think that's true for Democrats, too."

The Trib is all over this latest news development too:

• Big boost: Mitt Romney backs Count My Vote

Bad news for CMV opponents, wethink, as Romney contributes his Utah political "star-power" to the Count My Vote juggernaut.

Added bonus:  Find the nearest CMV petition location here, Mitt Romney fans:

• WCF Saturday Special: Ogden Area Count My Vote Petition Site Map and Addresses

Do your part to fix  Utah's "busted" political nomination system, which has been "hijacked by cynical power brokers and right-wing fanatics," folks.