But Mr Hayworth was always miscast as the incumbent-unseating battler against the Washington insider.
The battler spirit has enabled Australians to survive and prosper in the driest inhabited continent on earth, full of the most poisonous snakes, the largest crocodiles and the most terrifying sea-creatures.
Those of Peter Hain, the famous battler against apartheid who portrayed himself latterly as a bridge between New Labour and its doubting heartlands, seem to have waned since his demotion from the Foreign Office to energy minister.
Chuka Umunna and Liz Kendall, both Blairites, yet untainted by the in-fighting of the Blair era, are worthier of consideration.Mr Umunna is Labour's star media performer, has a compelling personal history, and was at times a lone battler against Mr Miliband's anti-business pitch.
John Howard, who last October was elected prime minister for the fourth time, has made one of the most successful political careers of modern times anywhere by appealing to those ordinary battlers.The battler spirit has its good points and its bad.
And his efforts to unseat UMNO now require the defection of parliamentarians from other parties, rather than a clear victory at the ballot box.But, facing fresh charges of sodomy, which give the appearance of renewed legal persecution, Mr Anwar presents himself credibly enough as a battler for truth, justice and democracy.
He certainly should be pondering it.For a battler like Mr Blair, who has a strong and often admirable conviction that he is right and his opponents wrong, it will always be hard to stand down.
This was solved by making Robin less an overt class warrior than a battler against villainy ("feared by the bad, loved by the good", as the theme song put it).
A quant jock in the making might prefer a school interested in models; a lifelong battler of a learning disability might be happier at a school with an interest in innovative teaching approaches.
By September 17th, not a single leading economic liberal nor any well-known battler for democracy had been appointed to a big job.
A drug-addicted, blue-collar battler of a congressman, facing constituents livid at the closure of a shipyard, tells them that it was beyond saving but that at least he cares about them, unlike other colleagues.
