The Tea Party is made up of educated and informed people of all races, backgrounds and religions who are not in need of a "leader" but are instead searching for a viable candidate through whom they can get their opinions expressed in Washington and the legislation that results from elections. Instead of needing an organizer they are doing the organizing themselves by selecting candidates who please them and agree with their selfless positions. Their lack of need for a "leader" is due to their understanding and admiration for the Constitution and the limited government assured by the defined powers of that document. They wish only to assure liberty and prosperity for themselves, their children and all of their fellow Americans and seek no personal gain from their political actions.
On the other hand are people who want freebies and whatever "stash" a government official will promise to give them. These people require community organizers who round-up people as though they were cattle, head 'em up to protest against whatever group or corporation the organizers want power and money from, and then the organizer instructs the herd when and how to vote and assures that they get to the polling place and that they vote correctly.
All of this is an aspect of cowboy politics that is rather disgusting and insulting when spelled out plainly. People should have more dignity than to allow themselves to be formed into herds, but people like Barack Obama don't mind insulting people who are only in the game for a hand-out, if it gives them the personal power to move on up the food chain to a classier group to associate with and hopefully organize.
In fact, one of the main reasons for dumbing-down the educational standards in America is to create more ignorant followers for Obama and his ilk to round up and brand with the symbol of the donkey. Stated differently, the reason the Department of Education must be abolished is that it has so undermined education in the United States that it has knowingly delivered many ignorant people to the population who believe they are owed a living and have no compunction about assembling to demand their piece of the "stash". If the Department of Education is not abolished soon there will be no thinking Americans left to vote for prosperity, liberty and the future of their children, as the Tea Party is doing.