So irrelevant that the NRO brain trust had to put together an editorial excoriating Barr for changing his mind on the Patriot Act, the War on Drugs, and the Global War on Tactics:

We don’t begrudge anyone the right to change their views, and applaud Barr’s change on medical marijuana. But on the war on terror, he’s simply wrong, opposing laws that have updated and rationalized the government’s powers to counter terrorism, and doing so while balancing respect for constitutional liberties with the need for public safety. Barr has resorted to the most demagogic arguments against the laws, including hysteria over the “library search” provision of the Patriot Act.

In a close presidential race, every vote is important. The press is speculating that Barr could be John McCain’s Nader. We doubt it. It will probably be Barr’s fate to be ignored, and those libertarians who care about the credibility of their cause should be glad of it.

Guys, if he’s irrelevant, why devote an entire editorial to attacking him for “flip-flopping”, while you’ve never mentioned Romney’s? The party hacks are scared – Lowry, Frummy, Kristol, and the rest of the Lincoln cult over at NRO (except for Derb, their token rEVOLutionary). When Rush Limbaugh talks about McCain ‘crossing the aisle’ to talk to conservatives’, something is foul in the GOP air. They know they have a revolt on their hands as they’re driving the GOP off an authoritarian cliff. This editorial was nothing more than an attempt to tell the kiddies to lock the doors, buckle up, and ignore all the other vehicles slamming on their brakes…

(thanks to Daniel McCarthy for first seeing the absurdity of loudly announcing the “irrelevance” of a candidate)