DNC re-vote insanity

I've actually got a lot of beefs with our current two-party political system, and I'll be making posts on this topic in the future. Probably everyone's aware of the problems with the Democratic primary and Florida and Michigan being stripped of their delegates due to how they scheduled their primaries. Ostensibly, both the Republican and the Democratic parties are private organizations, but in reality, they are so intertwined with the government that I doubt they will ever be dislodged. That's a longer post for another day. But this seems wrong on the face of it. A lawyer is arguing that by depriving the Florida/Michigan Democrats of a say in the Democratic primary, they are being deprived of their 14th Amendment rights. That's a hopelessly wrong argument. The Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that private organizations have the right to set their own membership and rules, as the Boy Scouts were allowed to restrict membership to heterosexuals. The DNC lawyer has it right:

Joe Sandler, attorney for the DNC, told the three-judge panel that the committee is a private entity and "is actually exercising its own constitutional right by not seating delegates." "The point we were trying to make in court today is that it's up to the parties themselves to determine the best means of selecting delegates to the convention, and it's not really a matter for a court to resolve," he told reporters later.

On the other hand, the primary votes in both Florida and Michigan were paid for by the state governments. I'm not sure that's directly relevant to what happens on a national level with the DNC though. I don't think the government should provide funding so that an organization (that should be private) can hold an internal election. George Washington would be turning over in his grave about how much the parties are entangled in our government.