Her philosophy was at the very least flawed and inconsistent…
supporting abortion rights,[75] opposing the Vietnam War and the military draft (but condemning draft dodgers as “bums”),[76] supporting Israel in the Arab-Israeli War of 1973 as “civilized men fighting savages”,[77] saying European colonists had the right to take land from American Indians,[78] and calling homosexuality “immoral” and “disgusting”.[79] She also endorsed several Republican candidates for President of the United States, most strongly Barry Goldwater in 1964, whose candidacy she promoted in several articles for The Objectivist Newsletter.[80] – wikipedia
I suppose in the era in which she was published she was regarded as a creative thinker…