Back in the early days of PopPolitics, we can proudly say that we were already mocking Newt Gingrich.

With his recent confession that he was having an affair while he was leading the push to impeach Bill Clinton, we thought we’d resurrect an old article from our “Marriage Issue” entitled “Soft Money or a Non-Stick Loaf Pan?” — which deconstructed the online registry for Gingrich’s wedding to his third and present wife, Callista Bisek.

Remarkably, we were able to read the registry tea leaves and see even back then that all hadn’t been right with his previous marriage:

Whether you’re shopping for a college friend or the former speaker of the House, a couple’s registry can be fascinating in its mundaneness. All sorts of things can be gleaned about the registrars’ personalities by looking at what their ideal home would contain. Have they chosen expensive china in a god-awful pattern? How serious are they about barware? Have they registered at Target?

Other questions present themselves in the particular case of Newt and Callista. For example, what is to be made of the fact that they’re registering for enough items to start a household from scratch? Perhaps Marianne, Newt’s most recent ex-wife, took all the pots and pans. Scrolling down the registry, it looks like she also took the crystal. And the china. The poor guy was left without even a citrus zester.