Libertarians have got to stop latching onto entertainers and has been politicians for the sake of name recognition and publicity purposes.
Picking clowns like Howard Stern or losers like Bob Barr just wind up making the party look silly. Badnarik sounded pretty good at first, and I remember hearing that he would ultimately be an embarrassment, and that side did eventually come out. He could have been handled more by the party leaders, however, when you get the inflated egos of the aforementioned embarrassments it is much harder to reign them in.
The choice of Landham for a senate run in KY was a disaster just waiting to happen. Maybe the party will get some cred for dumping the dumbass.
Doubt it.

Fishwrap story here.