"Except plenty of progressives have made it without selling out, e.g. Ralph Nader."

really? same guy that wrote this?
www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1187175,00.html

Wow, and on the online edition it's right next to an American Express ad. Gasp! What if he got paid for it? That corporate whore/tool/jerkoff Ralph Nader totally needs to shut his "pie-hole".

(Perhaps a person complaining about corporate influence in government yet writing for a magazine which contains corporate ads does not automatically make that person a "sell out". hmmm...)