Why do conservatives hate Jimmy Carter?

[DevotedDemocrat]

I don't feel it's just because he was a Democrat.
I've noted on conservative boards a special kind of hatred held for Carter, reserved only for Obama and the likes of Edward Kennedy. They seem to have grown to have a (very grudging) respect for Bill Clinton...But Carter is talked about as if he were some uber-socialist nightmare of a President, a horrid person.

But the guy was arguably just as Conservative as Reagan. I've read that in 1980, many people didn't see much difference in what Reagan and Carter were offering in terms of policies.

Carter:

-Wanted to slash taxes
-Began the process of deregulation, for example deregulated the airline and trucking industries
-Worked at welfare reform
-Was a Born Again, Evangelical Christian, and helped make the Religious Right into an organized, viable political group.
-Reignited the Cold War after a decade of relative calm and thawing.
-Increased defense spending at the expense of domestic spending

I mean, the guy was farther to the right than even George H.W. Bush, arguably, and probably even further to the right than George W. Bush, yet the conservatives act like he was a Socialist. I've only seen a greater level of hate aimed at our current President on the part of conservatives.

Why?