Please ... Rand is sufficiently embarrassing as a rule to anyone with any intellectual integrity. Spare me the total blithering idiot Peikoff.
Yea, and she's not as hot as Ann Coulter.
(Ducking for cover)
I agree that both Rand and Peikoff have been unpleasant jerks. That does NOT take away from the insights they have made which have proven helpful and even life-saving to me and others.
People with intellectual integrity know and consistently avoid the argumentum ad hominem, IMCO.