One of the most amazing things about Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign is that the longer it goes on, the less chance he has of actually winning and the more divorced (no pun intended) he becomes from reality.

Yesterday, ahead of the primaries in Mississippi and Alabama, Gingrich called into Janet Mefferd’s radio program for a short interview where they discussed Gingrich’s plan to get the price of gasoline down to $2.50 a gallon which he claimed was terrifying liberals because the Left fears energy independence and rejects new technology: