Without expressing any opinion about Ron Paul, let me just remind the world that the "wackos" are the ones who suggested Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11, that he possessed weapons of mass destruction, that he was in any way a threat to the United States, that invading the country with 130,000 troops would be a walk in the park, etc...
The fact that substantial numbers of our elite media and political industrial complexes are members of this group of Wackos does not render the term inappropriate, it simply serves to remind us of just how fucked up our elites are and just how large a problem we face.