None spring immediately to mind, no... but, then: that's precisely my point. ;) He's taking what is, by any yardstick, a highly UNconventional approach to begin with, in confessing (however obliquely) his incredibly flawed nature as a potential presidential aspirant.
The fact that it's only a halfway measure, quite frankly, strikes me as being the very worst of all possible worlds: "I have some genuinely unsavory skeletons in my past... but: they're not the sorts of things we really ought to be discussing candidly, out in the bright light of day." ;) If it turns out that I'm wrong on this one... well, then: I'm wrong. We'll certainly see soon enough, won't we...?
Alot of that is the reporter's spin on the commercial. The only thing (according to this article, anyway) he says directly is that he's "not perfect."
That seems like an admission any politician not named Clinton would easily cop to.
I'm no fan of Rudy, but I don't expect him to run ads knocking himself. That would be a bit silly. 8-)