Babbling Brooks

I realize that hating on David Brooks is a prerequisite for membership in the intellectual elite -- and accordingly a hackneyed subject for my readership -- but his most recent column prompts me to reaffirm my status. What a vile and juvenile excretion! I mean, what's the point? Criticizing a party convention for being self-congratulatory and pontificating? That's some ballsy, biting satire. Reasserting his token Republicanism? I thought he liked Obama. I can't say this is a step up from social pseudoscience. Am I missing something? Or does David Brooks simply need to close his mouth unless he's overlooking a toilet?