In case you missed it, here is the latest Roundup of news about presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.

Ann on the VEEP Stakes: Mitt Romney's wife says her husband is thinking about picking a woman to be on his ticket this fall.

Ann Romney says in an interview, "We've been looking at that and I love that option as well."

She  tells CBS News she thinks the person selected for the No. 2 spot should  be "someone that obviously can do the job but will be able to carry  through with some of the other responsibilities."

http://dailynews.com/news/ci_21011103/romneys-wife-says-woman-being-eyed-ticket?source=rss

Family Vacation: Check out a scrapbook of the Romney Family Vacation in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire:

http://theatlanticwire.com/national/2012/07/romney-family-vacation-scrapbook/54188/

"Kick In The Gut": A  jobs report showing lukewarm hiring in June is a "kick in the gut" to  American workers, presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney said in New  Hampshire Friday.

"It's  consistent with what I've heard as I've gone across the country and met  with families in their homes, in cafes and restaurants and in break  rooms," Romney said. "American families are struggling. There's a lot of  misery in America today, and these numbers understate what people are  feeling and the amount of pain which is occurring in middle class  America."

"The highest  corporate tax rates in the world do not create jobs," Romney said.  "Highest regulatory burdens in our nation's history - those do not  create jobs. Trade policies that have not opened up new markets for  American goods, particularly in Latin America, those don't create new  jobs. Failing to effectively crack down on China for cheating and  stealing American jobs, that has not helped."

"The  president's policies have not gotten America working again, and the  president's going to have to stand up and take responsibility for it,"  Romney continued.

"It  doesn't have to be this way," Romney said. "The president doesn't have a  plan. He hasn't proposed any new ideas to get the economy going. Just  the same old ideas of the past that have failed. I have a plan. My plan  calls for action that will get America working again and create good  jobs, both near term and long term."

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/06/romney-reacts-to-kick-in-the-gut-jobs-report/

Debate Prep: Sources  close to Mitt Romney tell the New York Daily News "that during a  three-day retreat he hosted late last month for big-time Republican  contributors and party mandarins at Park City, Utah, the candidate also  found time to squeeze in the first two rounds of what staffers call  'debate prep.'"

"Romney  convened six to eight campaign aides around a conference table... They  sorted through a variety of topics sure to come up in the three  Presidential debates, like the state of the economy and the war in  Afghanistan, and kicked around the best 'test responses' to questions  they expect Obama and debate moderators will toss at the  ex-Massachusetts governor."

"More  such encounters are expected over the summer, but what one source  called 'podium practices' with an Obama surrogate won't happen for  awhile -- mainly because Romney doesn't care for them all that much."

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/07/06/romney_already_prepping_for_debates.html

With Friends Like These:

Wall Street Journal - "The  Romney campaign thinks it can play it safe and coast to the White House  by saying the economy stinks and it's Mr. Obama's fault. We're on its  email list and the main daily message from the campaign is that 'Obama  isn't working.' Thanks, guys, but Americans already know that. What they  want to hear from the challenger is some understanding of why the  President's policies aren't working and how Mr. Romney's policies will  do better.

"Meanwhile, the  Obama campaign is assailing Mr. Romney as an out-of-touch rich man, and  the rich man obliged by vacationing this week at his lake-side home with  a jet-ski cameo. Team Obama is pounding him for Bain Capital, and until  a recent ad in Ohio the Romney campaign has been slow to respond. Team  Obama is now opening up a new assault on Mr. Romney as a job outsourcer  with foreign bank accounts, and if the Boston boys let that one go  unanswered, they ought to be fired for malpractice."

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/05/romney-squandering-an-historic-opportunity-scathing-editorial-says/

"Not So Fast": GOP calling for Romney campaign team shake-up; John Avlon says not so fast.

http://outfront.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/06/gop-calling-for-romney-campaign-team-shake-up-john-avlon-says-not-so-fast/

Sununu Speaks: When  CNN's Wolf Blitzer asked former New Hampshire governor and high profile  Romney surrogate John Sununu if he had any advice for the candidate,  Sununu said that his own party should be more concise, using more  “declarative sentences.”

"I  think they have to recognize that we are in a campaign mode where  simple, tough, declarative sentences are required," said Sununu. "That  this is not a campaign to be won on nuance but to be won on making sharp  distinctions on the failure of the Obama administration economically,  the loss of jobs and the pain that the American people are feeling."

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/05/sununu-to-romney-camp-keep-it-simple/

Back On Message: Republican  presidential candidate Mitt Romney tried to shift the campaign focus  back to the economy on Friday, jumping on a weak jobs report that he  described as a "kick in the gut" indictment of President Barack Obama's  economic leadership.

After a  week of struggling to define a position on healthcare, the jobs debate  was a welcome respite for Romney, who trails the Democratic incumbent  slightly in national polls.

http://reuters.com/article/2012/07/06/us-usa-campaign-romney-idUSBRE86419K20120706

Boosting Boston: Mitt  Romney is planning to fortify his communications and messaging team by  adding seasoned operatives, advisers said Thursday, after withering  criticism from conservative voices that his insular team has fumbled  recent opportunities.

http://startribune.com/politics/161512295.html

Continental Tour: Mitt  Romney’s campaign is considering a major foreign policy offensive at  the end of the month that would take him to five countries over three  continents and mark his first move away from a campaign message devoted  almost singularly to criticizing President Barack Obama’s handling of  the economy, sources tell POLITICO.

The  tentative plan being discussed internally would have Romney begin his  roll-out with a news-making address at the VFW convention later this  month in Reno, Nev. The presumptive GOP nominee then is slated to travel  to London for the start of the Olympics and to give a speech in Great  Britain on U.S. foreign policy.

http://politico.com/news/stories/0712/78159.html

Healthcare Ruling: Mitt  Romney, who still pledges on his website to nominee judges "in the mold  of Chief Justice Roberts," said in an interview airing Thursday the  health care decision written by Roberts last week appeared to be tainted  by politics.

"I certainly  wouldn't nominate someone who I knew was going to come out with a  decision I violently disagreed with - or vehemently, rather, disagreed  with," Romney said in an interview with CBS. The interview was taped  ahead of a July 4th parade in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, on Wednesday.

Romney  said Roberts, who was nominated to his post by Republican president  George W. Bush, had "reached a conclusion I think that was not accurate  and not an appropriate conclusion."

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/05/romney-roberts-decision-appears-political/

From  the Cornfield, in case you missed it earlier or didn't see it on your  favorite news channel or news website or newspaper, this is the latest  Romney Roundup.