As to her sense of humor, all I said is she could have used one, it might have helped.
The observation that her writing is bad is a correct one, she will never be considered a great novelist except by those who are true believers. As previously stated, her observations concerning statists are spot on, her understanding of how they gain and hold power couldn't be better. Philosophically she could point out what was wrong about the totalitarian left better than most. Unfortunately she didn't do quite so well with formulating how we should live and counter that totalitarian impulse, and how we could become full as human beings; her prescription for how to live was kind of stunted.
Hey, I have nothing against the woman, she made some great observations. I just find it difficult to laud her as the second coming of literary and philosophical genius.
Fine, I get your points, all of them, and am trying not to be too critical... ;-)
But if you wish to deny Rand the status of "second coming of...", then let me challenge you to name an author who did the same thing she did, only better.
I'm saying, if Rand was the best ever at presenting her point of view, why take anything away from that?