Certainly you are not suggesting that A.S. should offer McC a political bribe??
McC has made himself a name where he was previously an unknown. He is now the most recognizable elected (R) in the state of CA. That is, in and of itself, significant. What that makes him is the best possible candidate to take down Boxer in '04. Most CA voters are rather tired of her, her poll numbers are pathetic - in short she is in deep trouble. McC could move from the CA Senate, a minority with little power, to the US Senate, where he will be the (R) representing the largest constituency, a position of significant influence even for a freshman. His idealism will make him more effective, and give him an opportunity to grow support in CA that a governorship hammerlocked with a (D) assembly cannot provide.