Rick Santorum Penn State Yearbook Photo Shows Liberal Facial Hair

Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum is fast becoming known not just for his conservative stances, but also for his conservative style. His sweater vests have become so ubiquitous that the campaign has started selling them.

Before the sweater vest became a meme, The Atlantic dug up Santorum's old high school yearbook photo from 1976, calling it "tragic." The magazine went on to compare him to McLovin, the uber-nerd from Superbad. It fit.

But there was a period when Santorum didn't resemble a computer-camp reject or animated Sears ad, when he actually let his hair down. According to a 2005 Philadelphia City Paper story, the future politician wasn't so rigid during his undergrad years at Penn State University. "He had Republican values," U.S. Rep. Tom Feeney told the paper. "But it's not like he was running around leading conservative jihads or anything."

As you can see with his senior yearbook photo from Penn State, Santorum had no jihad against facial hair:

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Comments

[aquarius021793]

02:14 AM on 02/20/2012

I have no care or thoughts of ever voting for Santorum under any circumstances, but....

WTF did I just read?

[Eyeful]

10:08 PM on 02/18/2012

So? Ronald Reagan used to be a democrat and was president of a union. What's your point? Only liberals wear beards?

[Joanne Ransing]

07:22 PM on 02/18/2012

He was hanging out with Sandusky and the 2nd mile kids that year. He wanted to appear to be heterosexual.

[dudewalker]

03:48 PM on 02/18/2012

Articles like this make me dislike the Huffington Post and reminds me why AOL became such a train wreck.

[gulamon]

03:10 PM on 02/18/2012

This must be the most pointless article yet. Who cares?

[stirkle2]

02:35 PM on 02/18/2012

Good, he's a Liberal Conservative so he'll get 100% of the vote in November.

[jchal20826]

03:18 PM on 02/18/2012

You must do stand up because that's a funny one.

[dbrett480]

02:27 PM on 02/18/2012

I wouldn't call his facial hair liberal. Go to an OWS protest to see some extremely liberal facial hair.

[love4life]

02:15 PM on 02/18/2012

What a lame story. I'd like to get Ted Nugent's remarks that "facial hair" is liberal. That ought to be good.

[Decipherer]

03:05 PM on 02/18/2012

I'm sure Chuck Norris has an opinion about that as well.

[cornerofthemoon]

01:40 PM on 02/18/2012

Democrats are praying for this guy to get the GOP nomination...GO RICK!

[KidSampson]

01:39 PM on 02/18/2012

At first, I thought it was Krist Novoselic.

[den1953]

01:25 PM on 02/18/2012

Was that before or after he became good friends with Jerry Sandusky?

[Decipherer]

03:05 PM on 02/18/2012

Well, he is one of "Jerry's Kids."

[Grichde]

01:22 PM on 02/18/2012

Wished we could post a few Obama's school photos.

[Boomer in Itasca]

02:37 PM on 02/18/2012

Honest to God, Huff Po really, really needs to add a "Flag as Stupid" button here.

[Decipherer]

03:06 PM on 02/18/2012

Already did. Yawn.

[Ramuji Ramsey]

01:18 PM on 02/18/2012

Chicka chicka yeah!

[fitzroya]

12:42 PM on 02/18/2012

Archie called a fellow who looked like that "meathead." Archie never expected this meathead would grow up to become a vested facsimile of everything the Archie Bunker character represented.

[mrbeadle]

12:34 PM on 02/18/2012

let yer fr ea k flag fly, rick.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mCKLt7A6sA