Clarification:
Rand Paul is not a classic “conservative”. He is, and often calls himself, a libertarian, a somewhat different breed of cat.
Each of these schools of thought have their own sets of internal logic. This is not to disparage one or the other, because the two do manage to complement each other, but there will never be a natural unity or congruity of how the answers are arrived at.
But both boil down to an important concept - the Federal government has taken on a completely unconstitutional level of involvement in the lives of individual, and both libertarians and conservative just want the Federal government to get the H*ll out of their lives.
But rugged individualism is now considered to be passé. The juggernaut of central planning and managed economic activity is on runaway and headed for the smashed trestle ahead on the tracks. Either you manage to jump off before it gets to that terminal point, or choose to ride it all the way to the end of the line, is some test of personal bravery.
When you say someone has their “own set of internal logic” you mean they go by their own rules. Not the rules they pretend to go by.
This includes looking the other way when their cronies cheat.
There’s no way to excuse vote fraud, or to excuse people covering for the vote fraud of other politicians.