“William F. Buckley defined it as conservative vs. Conservative.”
Funny that you mention Buckley, because he was adamant about kicking kooks like the Birchers out of the GOP. Addition by subtraction. I don’t think anybody is kicking the PaulNuts out. They will self-deselect likely due to their pacifist liberal views.
“My view of current events and movements is that there are few that are truly conservative. Reagan conservatism defines the current conservative movement in the GOP. Three pillars, economic, social and nationala security.
Paulists are only one pillar economic. There not conservatives. They are conservative economically but pacifist Leftists on national security.
The Paulites are another extreme, of course. They seem to think that America was once Swiss in its outside orientation, basically ignoring all American foreign policy outside of Washington's farewell speech.