A CNN article posted today highlights Romney's preparation for a White House run. Here are some key excerpts:

"I have not seen an individual approach this situation with a greater degree of structure or by compiling such a vast database for making it, both on the personal and political sides," said Tom Rath, a veteran New Hampshire political operative who has advised former Republican candidates such as Bob Dole, George H.W. Bush, Lamar Alexander and George W. Bush.

The Rev. Jerry Falwell, an evangelical who founded the Moral Majority, said he expects Christian conservatives will focus more on Romney's personal morality and his current views than his past statements or his faith.

"We're not trying to find a Sunday school teacher in chief; we're trying to find a commander in chief," said Falwell, who traveled to Massachusetts last month to meet with Romney. Also attending the meeting were Franklin Graham, Gary Bauer, Lou Sheldon, Richard Land and other conservative social and religious leaders.

"Where he goes to church will not be a factor; how he lives his life will be," said Falwell.

Romney's political action committee, the Commonwealth PAC, raised $8.75 million and gave away $1.3 million in the most recent election cycle -- virtually the same dispensed by McCain's much older "Straight Talk America" committee.

The governor's top political advisers, meanwhile, tend to be Bush-heavy. They include Ron Kaufman, the former White House political director under President George H.W. Bush; Alex Castellanos, a media consultant for President George W. Bush; Jan van Lohuizen, a pollster for the president and Republican National Committee, and Alex Gage, a "microtargeting" expert who helped Bush pinpoint pockets of support in the 2004 presidential campaign.