Bachmann Warns Beware Soviet Union

(NewsCore) - COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Minnesota congresswoman and 2012 presidential candidate Michele Bachmann left some listeners scratching their heads Thursday when she said during a radio show interview that the US was in danger of being eclipsed by the Soviet Union.

Bachmann made the remark during an appearance on the Jay Sekulow radio show while campaigning in South Carolina.

"It really is about jobs and the economy," Bachmann said when asked what was on the minds of American voters she met on the trail.

"But what people recognize is that there's a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the rise of China, the rise of India, the rise of the Soviet Union and our loss militarily going forward."

The Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991 at the end of the Cold War.

It is not the first gaffe for Bachmann. Earlier this week she wished Elvis Presley a happy birthday on the 34th anniversary of his death.

Previous flubs include erroneously saying that film star John Wayne was from her hometown of Waterloo, Iowa, claiming that the Founding Fathers worked tirelessly to end slavery, and saying that the "shot heard round the world," which started the American Revolutionary War, was fired in New Hampshire, instead of Massachusetts.

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