No. There are no Tea Party founders. The TP is a group of like minded, coonservatve individuals. There are no official leaders or founders.
Jim Robinson could be considered a TP founder along the author’s reasoning. So could anyone like me for example because I helped organize several early FReeps locally inncluding one where around ten of us protested the taking of Elian Gonzalas.
The TP is We The People.
Exactly. There are no “leaders”... they just want a leader to prop up to destroy the movement.