I graduated in the 70's and have seen far worse.

no doubt there are lots worse.

but it was fun to see... I wonder if he was as anti-female back then?

In the seventies he was probably a fun guy to hang out with.

I graduated the same year. Many of the guys in my school looked like that. Same hair. Same suit. I give him credit for not getting the "disco" look that began that year.

I've read through all the replies and the level of tittering juvenile immaturity is just absolutely amazing for a forum that one would think is composed of thinking individuals. Homophobic remarks are there in droves. I feel like I was transported to a lunchroom for 7 and 8th graders. Too bad the unrec feature is no longer available. Criticize on the content of the head. I'm sure some would have no problem pointing and tittering over that remark, too.

People are allowed to voice opinions here on a wide range of subjects, if there are some not to your liking, ignore the thread.

You are no one's Nanny here.

Sometimes people like to have fun simply to have fun, regardless of amount of thought put into it. I also enjoy watching the Blazing Saddles and laughing uproariously... but then I'm obviously not as evolved as those who believe thought, action and reaction must be carefully considered, composed, premised, and finally concluded on an academic level of formal discussion.

Heads-up-- never watch The Three Stooges; it has a "level of tittering juvenile immaturity" you would most likely find droll, common and without merit given your measured, considered, composed and premised position.

People are all in the process for becoming rather than having arrived.

Let's just say it was taken right after I'd done a graveyard shift at the radio station, and leave it at that.

The 70's was a dark age of fashion. The only way to avoid looking like a dork was to either be naked or to never leave your house.

The hell you say!

All extant yearbook photos of yer friendly neighborhood gratuitous were tragically lost for all time in that tragic fire of not-suspicious-at-all origin in that tragic incident that nobody really remembers. But it was tragic.

I think many of us have yearbook photos that we'd prefer to keep buried in the past

or at least slightly absurd?

I would defintely hate for the AtlMo to post any picture of me.

May be he got called a ............
That sure would explain his 'hangups'.
I'm also from Pa. I suspect high school was four very bad years for the lad.

Seems to me you can look at any yearbook from that year and find dozens and dozens of similar photos. Dated photos always look stupid. Have a look at your own senior photo, and post it here, so we can comment on how funny it looks.

We have tons of serious objections to every one of the Republican candidates. Their yearbook photos are not fair fodder.

THAT'S the photo that should have his activities listed as "Future Swingers of America."

I know somebody who knows somebody who taught
@ West Georgia College in the 1970s when Newt was there
and the faculty & admin @ the school hated Newt.

Just that picture of him posing w/ multiple books .... look
I am smart ...... Newt is a d-bag.

he really needed a porn 'stache to complete the look, tho.

Cold, uncaring, cruel - that's how he looks to me. Sociopath/psychopath.

was that he looked like the guy from The Office in that photo. Now I know his name. Thanks!

when he was banging his geometry teacher.

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Is this really Fred Thompson? Talk about not aging well.

Kind of fits the era, imo.

Cool sideburns, wide lappel jacket and period correct floral shirt. I seriously don't understant the rub on this one.

I feel sorry for his wife...

but, as far as the picture - I didn't post it in a mean-spirited way. who doesn't look goofy in pictures from years ago? it's funny simply for that reason. but the atlantic obviously REALLY doesn't like the guy.

Yes he gave up the leisure suits and the polyester shirts but he still looks like the guy who spent his high school years in constant fear of a wedgie.

I'm against bullying and all that, but Santorum looks like a guy I'd like to stuff into a locker or sit him on a drinking fountain. Still.

for a sweater vest!!! No one looks good in a sweater vest. Even George Clooney would have trouble pulling it off.

Scary!

...hair with Raid® every morning just so!

Half of the guys in my high school looked like that, in their senior photo.

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Half the guys in my high school looked like that, too. Some of the ladies also looked a little odd.

The people I went to high school with, however, have spent the last 35 years paying the tax money that Rick Santorum bilked out of Pennsylvanians.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/07/11/129569/-Santorum-Gets-Away-With-It

Rick Santorum deserves the ridicule he gets; he has spent the last 35 years being a sanctimonious jerk--on our dime.

But making fun of someone's appearance, especially when half of the guys of his era looked the same way, is not the way to go.

He gets no pass from me on his appearance.

Nope. I don't care if the other guys looked the same way. The "Other guys" aren't trying to stop women from having contraception. "Other guys" aren't trying to force women who have been raped to carry out pregnancies.

He's a twisted, dangerous person. When he decides to stay out of my personal business, then I'll stay out of his.

I didn't know The Atlantic did tabloid stuff.

Look, I'm certainly no fan of his, but almost everyone looked like that in the 70's! My parents were high school teachers; they'd bring home copies of the yearbooks at the end of each year and I'd have fun laughing my ass off at the pictures. I didn't graduate until the early 80's. but even I and my elementary and junior high classmates didn't exactly look like fashionistas in the 70's.

I don't know what it was about the decade, but it sure made 90% of students look like complete dorks, even those who were not dorks by any stretch of the imagination. Hubby is ten years older than me and his high school pics are rather, well, ahem, interesting!

i know these are from years ago and it was the style then.

but i guess it's because of how we know them now and how stuffy, wingnut humourless they all are.

in those old pics they seem more natural , not so stern, strict uptight etc. they look like they could have been fun and interesting to be around.

the least appealing i find is Romney, he looks the same, a younger version of how he looks now. i don't get a sense that he might have at one time been a more fun relaxed guy. he seems the same .

of course the other guys were probably the same then but a different look can let you imagine maybe they might have been less wingnutty.

...because his sense of humor is exactly the same: that of a 4-year-old going on 14. I remember reading an article about him in which he wrote in a letter during his time as a missionary in France: "Suffering Succotash, it's hard." I mean really...Mittens is juvenile.

and misanthropic as he is because he got beaten on relentlessly in high school.

It has always struck me that this is the case, but this photo only strengthens my conviction.

and didn't have real bad acne the way I did at that age.

With the possible exception of Jerry Garcia, everyone looked like shit in 1976.

That's why.

Edited to add: It was around that time, or maybe a couple years earlier, that some psychopathic barber LITERALLY gave me the haircut of the little dutch boy from the paint can. The only explanation I can possibly come up with is that they were on lots and lots and lots of drugs at the time.



And no, you can't have a picture.

We're talking about Santorum and you gotta go to picking on his high-school yearbook photo? Seriously?

I'm not picking on him - other candidates photos were added too - and are on the site. I haven't said one mean-spirited thing here about this photo. The high-falutin' Atlantic Monthly did - and I cannot control what others post here, even when I don't agree with their tone, etc.

You don't have to take this in a bad way or think one person's response is every person's response.

That's my guess

high school photos. It seems to me that there's plenty of substantial criticism that can be made about all of the Republican candidates. Their high school photos seem to me to be an ugly direction that we shouldn't be going in.

I graduated from high school in 1963. I look like a dork in my photo. What else is new? I suggest those who think it is a good idea to attack based on those photos have a look at their own high school photos. It's usually not pretty.

Really, are we that hardup with finding something to criticize Dick Santorum?

at least by the standards of the school I went to.

How does your own high school photo look? Getting beat up for how you look is bullying, pure and simple. It was wrong then, and it's still wrong now. This thread is full of ugliness, I think.

and my account doesn't include an endorsement.

Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooberrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...

the era of polyester leisure suits.

Everybody looked like that in 1976. Hardly the worst yearbook photo ever. Geez.

I HATE Santorum and everything he stands for but... geez.

Go to Google Images and search "George Clooney high school photo". 'Nuff said.

of you to post this gibberish.

Had I lived in the era of Harry Potter, I'm pretty sure that would have been my nickname.

I think this is funny in a good way, not unfortunate. It's a perfect 70s look and the McLovin similarities make it even better.

that Rick Santorum was a pivot man in a circle jerk. This in no way condemns circle jerks, just the jerk named Rick Santorum.

...I can assure you mine were worse!