If he wants it, he can get into the mix. What he will need to do is stay visible, be seen at public functions, write letters to the editor, tour around the state, keep his political organization viable - those sort of things.
If he goes underground and isn’t heard from for two years, then decides in early 2016 that he wants to run again for Senate, he likely won’t be successful.
How does the old clans of the past, Longs and Jones shake
out in LA politics today? If at all.