JANET NAPOLITANO seemed the perfect Republican target. Her resume made her look like Rush Limbaugh's dream "feminazi": Democratic activist, zealous abortion-rights advocate, former legal-services lawyer for the poor. She had even been one of Anita Hill's lawyers during the Clarence Thomas hearings in 1991. A Clinton appointee as U.S. attorney for Arizona, she had zero experience as a prosecutor.
So when ABC's "20/20" aired allegations earlier this month that Napolitano had thwarted an undercover operation to catch a child pornographer, the GOP pounced. The Dole campaign rushed out a press release criticizing Napolitano for being soft on porn, and Dole himself demanded that Attorney General Janet Reno explain …