WASHINGTON, March 18 (UPI) -- Glenn Beck told his radio audience Wednesday he is finished with the Republican Party.

The conservative talk show host, who has been a Republican Party partisan in prior years but has lately developed a libertarian outlook, said Wednesday, ""I've made my decision. I'm out. I'm out of the Republican Party. I am not a Republican."


I will not give a dime to the Republican Party. I'm out. I highly recommend – run from the Republican Party. They are not good. They ran and they said they were doing all of these great things and they were going to stand against Obamacare and illegal immigration. They set us up. They set us up. Enough is enough. They're torpedoing the Constitution and they're doing it knowingly. They're taking on people like Mike Lee and Ted Cruz and they are torpedoing them, knowingly."

Beck's anger is directed toward the party's inability to defeat health care and immigration legislation proposed by President Barack Obama, and what Beck, 51, sees as the party's opposition to the growing influence of Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Fla.).

"So I'm done with them," Beck added. "Four years ago, I was with them (the GOP). Four years ago, I said 'Work from the inside: let's change it. Let's get new guys in there.' It's too late."