Campaign Staffers Try To Let Mike Frerichs Down Easy On Scarecrow Pic

We were sent this screenshot of a text exchange between Mike Frerichs and his campaign manager in his race for Illinois Treasurer.  We feel the staffer's pain:  when a candidate loves something so much and you know the reality of the situation.

It seems that's the situation with the scarecrow photo.  Mike loves it and even calls it #awesomesauce (which is just perfect from Mike, right?!?), but his campaign team have seen the posts this morning about the 'if I only had a brain' stuff already...