George Wallace was the antithesis of the T.E.A. party. He was NEVER known to be a low-taxation, limited-government kind of guy, and in fact, was a great admirer of the FDR New Deal, and was something of a populist himself, based on the handout crowd that made up the core of his electorate.
He may have pictured himself as “independent”, but mostly he was sticking it in the ear of those Democrats that were trying to marginalize him, not because of any sympathies for honesty and transparency in matters of legislative and executive importance.