He was also a pothead (and harder drugs), admitted bisexual who lived with Neal and Carolyn Cassidy in a kinky 3 way relationship, mixed Buddhism with Catholicism, walked out on his wife and abandoned his only child. That’s what you call a paleo-conservative?
I agree that he wasn’t conservative or traditional in his behavior. At the time, anti-communism and what we would today call paleoconservatism were not solely the province of traditionalists. Most of Hollywood and the the press were conservative. The current left/right battle lines were drawn in the late 60s.