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?
I was agreeing with someone that she was not a LITERARY great, not even all that good. Alexander Sohlznetsin might be said to be great literarily (at least very good), and he fought the Marxists just as well as Rand did, if not a bit better.
Like I said, she has my respect for what she did well, I consider her to have had a strong part in educating others about the dangers of socialism, and for that I'm grateful for her work.