Turnabout fair play?

Consider for a moment that the Republican strategy of voting as a block against everything the President proposed, and filibustering all of his nominees, succeeds for them. A fed up electorate votes Romney into office just to end the deadlock. Because this was a successful strategy, what would prevent the Democrats from pursuing the same strategy? Logically, in this case, they should.

Would the Democrats then be criticized more than the Republicans have been for the same strategy? What is fair in love of country vs. the war of politics? If this were a just world, the GOP would loose the presidency, the congress, and a good number of senate seats for putting party ahead of country. But the press have not framed the situation in such a way that the American people fully understand the betrayal of office the Republicans have undertaken. Once the Democrats pursued the same strategy, it would suddenly become clear to all that what the Republicans had done was not only despicable, but also a breaking of their oath of office.

I suspect in this case, however, that the Democrats would be more heavily criticized if for no other reason than it was the second time around for this strategy.

This is all theoretical, of course, because I don't believe the Democrats would be unethical enough to pursue the same strategy. And that, I am sure, is what the Republicans are counting on.