I guess you’d have to define “conservative” before we can compare Rand Paul to that standard.
I’d say Paul was a “minarchist”.
That not only means that the gov’t stays out of your wallet,
but also stays out of enforcing the moral direction of the country.
(I believe that the gov’t DOES have a role in the latter, BTW)
A “minarchy” is the only kind of government that we can have any hope of actually holding accountable.
Also, it won’t innovate. It won’t tell everybody ELSE that they have to “honor ‘gay marriage’”. That is not about minimum involvement in morality. That is about TWISTED involvement in morality, which turns an old “thou shalt not” not into a “we don’t care if” but into a “thou shalt.”