Not if the Dems decide to exact revenge on him in redistricting in 2012 (and it won't matter if there is a Dem or RINO Governor to sign off -- both groups HATE McClintock). They may want to get a 40-seat majority out of the state that year. It's already at 34.
California is already gerrymandered to the extreme. The state is already set up to favor Dems, and it does, but the price they pay for their majority and safe districts is that the GOP also has their own safe districts.
Plus, didn’t Prop 11 pass in California? If it did in fact pass, then re-districting would be in the hands of a non-partisan citizen’s panel, not the legislature.
It’s quite possible that McClintock will run for statewide office within the next four years.
It’ll be pretty hard to squeeze 6 more RAT seats out of CA imo.